Name and Signal

Name

Name verb - To make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically.

Usage example: I don't want to name anyone in particular, but someone in this room fiddled with my car's radio

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Signal and name are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Signal" instead the word "Name" as a verb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: named, nameless, naming

Signal verb - To direct or notify by a movement or gesture.

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Name and signal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Name" instead the word "Signal" as a verb or an adjective.

good	good name	good signal
similar	similar name	similar signal
common	common name	common signal
specific	specific name	specific signal
Other adjectives: original, single, actual, real, wrong, bad, false, secret, new, random, weird, strange, last.

The Doctor drags Peri around for a little while, continually calling her the wrong name...Zoe, Tegan, Jamie...while he looks for the source of the signal.

Source: Recap / Doctor Who S22 E1 "Attack of the Cybermen"
When he traveled to the US to promote the movie, Shah Rukh Khan was... searched and detained for questioning in an airport because his name lit up a red signal for terrorism. Oops.

Source: Bollywood / My Name Is Khan
The name Starbuck may signal Herman Melville's penchant for symbolism in Moby-Dick, but it also signaled "awesome" to both TV sci-fi (Battlestar Galactica) and Seattle coffeehouse proprietors.

Source: Awesome Mc Coolname / Literature

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