trivial name

noun

Definition of trivial namenext
as in pen name

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  1. pen name
  2. trade name
  3. brand name
  4. nom de plume
  5. vernacular
  6. binomial
  7. misnomer
  8. label
Noun
  • Based on the classic Stephen King novel written under pen name Richard Bachman, The Running Man is set in an oppressive future where the government controls the media.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The Baby Driver filmmaker co-wrote script with Michael Bacall based on the Stephen King novel that was published under his then pen name of Richard Bachman.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of pen name
Noun
  • Intangible assets can include patents, copyrights, franchises, goodwill, trademarks, trade names, software, business reputation, branding, unique business processes and so much more.
    James Felton Keith, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Over 75,000 plaintiffs filed suit in Delaware Superior Court alleging that ranitidine, which several manufacturers market under the trade name Zantac, caused their cancer.
    Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Definition of trade name
Noun
  • Varicella-zoster immune globulin, which goes by the brand name VariZIG, can be given up to 10 days after exposure to the illness.3 It is used in people who are unvaccinated and cannot receive the vaccine for medical reasons.
    Carrie Madormo, RN, Health, 3 Nov. 2024
  • At a clinical trial in 1970, tamoxifen, which went by the brand name Nolvadex, was given to 60 late stage breast cancer patients.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of brand name
Noun
  • Penelope lies about her nom de plume and hides it from Colin.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 June 2024
  • Malia Obama used a nom de plume while screening and submitting her most recent short film, which the former first daughter worked on with Emmy winner Doland Glover, to film festivals.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of nom de plume
Noun
  • Comparatively, while New Hampshire is quiet, with a small core group of practitioners working in regional vernaculars, Maine and Vermont boast a disproportionate number of architects—Elliott Architects and Birdseye among them—engaged in custom residential equal to that of the nation’s highest.
    Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Since 2015, the term lynching, a word with 18th-century American roots, has become part of the Indian vernacular.
    Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
Definition of vernacular
Noun
  • She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.
    Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The watermelons grown in the United States were soon subsumed under the same Latin binomial.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
Definition of binomial
Noun
  • In fact, even calling them a CMO has become something of a misnomer, because the role is changing dramatically.
    Mike Maynard, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The name Dry Tortugas National Park is a bit of a misnomer, considering that less than one percent of this Florida national park’s 100 square miles is dry land.
    Matt Kirouac, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2023
Definition of misnomer
Noun
  • The label of far right is rejected by Orbán’s Hungarian party, Fidesz.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Schwarzenegger is proof that the Republican label doesn’t have to be poison in California.
    Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of label
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