The act of appointing to an office or position

• nomination

  1. The act or an instance of appointing a person to office.
  2. The act or an instance of submitting a name for candidacy or appointment.
  3. The state of being nominated.

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• appointment

  1. The act of appointing or designating someone for an office or position.
  2. The office or position to which one has been appointed.
  3. An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place.

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The word or words by which one is called and identified

• moniker

  1. A personal name or nickname.

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• handle

  1. To touch, lift, or hold with the hands:
  2. To operate with the hands; manipulate:
  3. To deal with or have responsibility for; conduct:

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• title

  1. An identifying name given to a book, play, film, musical composition, or other work.
  2. A general or descriptive heading, as of a book chapter.
  3. A written work that is published or about to be published:

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• tag

  1. A strip of leather, paper, metal, or plastic attached to something or hung from a wearer's neck to identify, classify, or label:
  2. The plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace.
  3. The contrastingly colored tip of an animal's tail.

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• style

  1. The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed:
  2. The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
  3. Sort; type:

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• nickname

  1. A descriptive name added to or replacing the actual name of a person, place, or thing.
  2. A familiar or shortened form of a proper name.
  3. To give a nickname to.

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• .name

  1. A word or words by which an entity is designated and distinguished from others.
  2. A word or group of words used to describe or evaluate, often disparagingly:
  3. Representation or repute, as opposed to reality:

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• epithet

  1. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great.
  2. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln.
  3. A disparaging or abusive word or phrase.

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• denomination

  1. A large group of religious congregations united under a common faith and name, usually organized under a single administrative and legal hierarchy.
  2. One of a series of kinds, values, or sizes, as in a system of currency or weights:
  3. A name or designation, especially for a class or group.

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• cognomen

  1. A family name; a surname.
  2. The third and usually last name of a citizen of ancient Rome, as Caesar in Gaius Julius Caesar.
  3. A name, especially a descriptive nickname or epithet acquired through usage over a period of time.

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• appellative

  1. Of or relating to the assignment of names.
  2. Of or relating to a common noun.
  3. A name or descriptive epithet.

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• appellation

  1. A name, title, or designation.
  2. A protected name under which a wine may be sold, indicating that the grapes used are of a specific kind from a specific district.
  3. The act of naming.

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The act of designating

• specification

  1. The act of specifying.
  2. A detailed, exact statement of particulars, especially a statement prescribing materials, dimensions, and quality of work for something to be built, installed, or manufactured.
  3. A single item or article that has been specified.

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• indication

  1. The act of indicating:
  2. Something that serves to indicate; a sign:
  3. Something indicated as necessary or expedient:

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• selection

  1. The act of selecting something:
  2. One that is selected, such as a literary or musical text chosen for reading or performance:
  3. A carefully chosen or representative collection of people or things:

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A mark that designates

• appellation

  1. A name, title, or designation.
  2. A protected name under which a wine may be sold, indicating that the grapes used are of a specific kind from a specific district.
  3. The act of naming.

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• key word

  1. See keyword.

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• classification

  1. The act, process, or result of classifying.
  2. A category or class.
  3. The systematic grouping of organisms into categories on the basis of evolutionary or structural relationships between them; taxonomy.

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