What is the word describing renaming an event or process with a symbolic phrase or word?
For example, in an aerospace business setting we are trying to find a title for the process to get approval for a new good or service. We are suggesting names like: green light, take off, launch pad, etc...
What are these names called? Is there a word for it?
They are not euphemisms because we're not referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
It's not stenography because we're not trying to hide anything.
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For example, in an aerospace business setting we are trying to find a title for the process to get approval for a new good or service. We are suggesting names like: green light, take off, launch pad, etc...
What are these names called? Is there a word for it?
They are not euphemisms because we're not referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
It's not stenography because we're not trying to hide anything.
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Are you after another name for greenlight/takeoff/launchpad or the name for the process of coming up with one of those names?
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For example, in an aerospace business setting we are trying to find a title for the process to get approval for a new good or service. We are suggesting names like: green light, take off, launch pad, etc...
What are these names called? Is there a word for it?
They are not euphemisms because we're not referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
It's not stenography because we're not trying to hide anything.
single-word-requests
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For example, in an aerospace business setting we are trying to find a title for the process to get approval for a new good or service. We are suggesting names like: green light, take off, launch pad, etc...
What are these names called? Is there a word for it?
They are not euphemisms because we're not referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
It's not stenography because we're not trying to hide anything.
single-word-requests
single-word-requests
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Are you after another name for greenlight/takeoff/launchpad or the name for the process of coming up with one of those names?
– Smock
yesterday
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Are you after another name for greenlight/takeoff/launchpad or the name for the process of coming up with one of those names?
– Smock
yesterday
Are you after another name for greenlight/takeoff/launchpad or the name for the process of coming up with one of those names?
– Smock
yesterday
Are you after another name for greenlight/takeoff/launchpad or the name for the process of coming up with one of those names?
– Smock
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An idiom is a set phrase that has acquired a meaning separate from the combined meaning of the individual words. A metaphor is figurative language in which an analogy is implicitly given.
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Those names (symbolic words or phrases) are terms specific to the respective field and the technical term (mass noun) for them is terminology, sometimes also referred to as nomenclature or jargon.
ODO:
terminology
NOUN [mass noun] The body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, profession, etc.
‘I realise that the army's history and terminology is an unknown jungle to many.’
nomenclature
NOUN [mass noun]
1.1 The body or system of names used in a particular specialist field. ‘the students found it hard to decipher the nomenclature of
chemical compounds’
1.2 [formal] The term or terms applied to someone or something. ‘‘customers’ was preferred to the original nomenclature ‘passengers’’
jargon
NOUN [mass noun]
1 Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
‘legal jargon’
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It's about "renaming" more than anything, so I'd go with:
Reanointing
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An idiom is a set phrase that has acquired a meaning separate from the combined meaning of the individual words. A metaphor is figurative language in which an analogy is implicitly given.
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An idiom is a set phrase that has acquired a meaning separate from the combined meaning of the individual words. A metaphor is figurative language in which an analogy is implicitly given.
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An idiom is a set phrase that has acquired a meaning separate from the combined meaning of the individual words. A metaphor is figurative language in which an analogy is implicitly given.
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AcccumulationAcccumulation
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An idiom is a set phrase that has acquired a meaning separate from the combined meaning of the individual words. A metaphor is figurative language in which an analogy is implicitly given.
answered yesterday
AcccumulationAcccumulation
1,46529
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Those names (symbolic words or phrases) are terms specific to the respective field and the technical term (mass noun) for them is terminology, sometimes also referred to as nomenclature or jargon.
ODO:
terminology
NOUN [mass noun] The body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, profession, etc.
‘I realise that the army's history and terminology is an unknown jungle to many.’
nomenclature
NOUN [mass noun]
1.1 The body or system of names used in a particular specialist field. ‘the students found it hard to decipher the nomenclature of
chemical compounds’
1.2 [formal] The term or terms applied to someone or something. ‘‘customers’ was preferred to the original nomenclature ‘passengers’’
jargon
NOUN [mass noun]
1 Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
‘legal jargon’
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alwayslearningalwayslearning
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Those names (symbolic words or phrases) are terms specific to the respective field and the technical term (mass noun) for them is terminology, sometimes also referred to as nomenclature or jargon.
ODO:
terminology
NOUN [mass noun] The body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, profession, etc.
‘I realise that the army's history and terminology is an unknown jungle to many.’
nomenclature
NOUN [mass noun]
1.1 The body or system of names used in a particular specialist field. ‘the students found it hard to decipher the nomenclature of
chemical compounds’
1.2 [formal] The term or terms applied to someone or something. ‘‘customers’ was preferred to the original nomenclature ‘passengers’’
jargon
NOUN [mass noun]
1 Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
‘legal jargon’
answered yesterday
alwayslearningalwayslearning
26.4k63894
add a comment |
Those names (symbolic words or phrases) are terms specific to the respective field and the technical term (mass noun) for them is terminology, sometimes also referred to as nomenclature or jargon.
ODO:
terminology
NOUN [mass noun] The body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, profession, etc.
‘I realise that the army's history and terminology is an unknown jungle to many.’
nomenclature
NOUN [mass noun]
1.1 The body or system of names used in a particular specialist field. ‘the students found it hard to decipher the nomenclature of
chemical compounds’
1.2 [formal] The term or terms applied to someone or something. ‘‘customers’ was preferred to the original nomenclature ‘passengers’’
jargon
NOUN [mass noun]
1 Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
‘legal jargon’
answered yesterday
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Those names (symbolic words or phrases) are terms specific to the respective field and the technical term (mass noun) for them is terminology, sometimes also referred to as nomenclature or jargon.
ODO:
terminology
NOUN [mass noun] The body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, profession, etc.
‘I realise that the army's history and terminology is an unknown jungle to many.’
nomenclature
NOUN [mass noun]
1.1 The body or system of names used in a particular specialist field. ‘the students found it hard to decipher the nomenclature of
chemical compounds’
1.2 [formal] The term or terms applied to someone or something. ‘‘customers’ was preferred to the original nomenclature ‘passengers’’
jargon
NOUN [mass noun]
1 Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.
‘legal jargon’
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It's about "renaming" more than anything, so I'd go with:
Reanointing
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It's about "renaming" more than anything, so I'd go with:
Reanointing
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It's about "renaming" more than anything, so I'd go with:
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Are you after another name for greenlight/takeoff/launchpad or the name for the process of coming up with one of those names?
– Smock
yesterday