alias
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From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
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alias (not comparable)
- Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 168:
- Hitherto the commanding influence of Sir Robert Evelyn's character had sunk his own into insignificance—now he had no "rival near the throne," alias the bench of county magistrates.
- 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:
- When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?
- (law) Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful
- Smith, alias Simpson.
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alias (plural aliases)
- Another name; an assumed name.
- (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
- (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
- (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
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- (another name): pseudonym
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alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)
- (computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
- (signal processing, of two signals, transitive, intransitive) To make or become indistinguishable.
- 1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22:
- When the signal frequency reaches half the sampling frequency, there are only two samples per cycle, which is the absolute minimum needed to record a waveform. A higher frequency would cause the digitization system to alias.
- 1999, Carlo Bartolozzi with Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:
- Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias
- 2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106:
- This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband
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- Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading edit
- “alias”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “alias”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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alias
- alias, AKA (used to introduce an alternative name)
- Synonyms: see eli
- 2020 September 22, Raila Kinnunen, “70 vuotta Kirkan syntymästä: 'Poismennyttä ihmistä voi ajatella ilolla – Lähtijällä on nyt hyvä olla, hänellä ei ole hätää, ei kipua eikä tuskaa'”, in Apu[1]:
- Hautakiviä kaatui ja ihmiset talloivat hautoja. Kirill ja pikkuveli Georgij alias Ykä päättivät, että sama ei tapahdu enää ikinä.
- Headstones fell and people trampled on the graves. Kirill and his little brother Georgij alias Ykä decided that such a thing would never happen again.
Noun edit
alias
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Inflection of alias (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | alias | aliakset | ||
genitive | aliaksen | aliasten aliaksien | ||
partitive | aliasta | aliaksia | ||
illative | aliakseen | aliaksiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | alias | aliakset | ||
accusative | nom. | alias | aliakset | |
gen. | aliaksen | |||
genitive | aliaksen | aliasten aliaksien | ||
partitive | aliasta | aliaksia | ||
inessive | aliaksessa | aliaksissa | ||
elative | aliaksesta | aliaksista | ||
illative | aliakseen | aliaksiin | ||
adessive | aliaksella | aliaksilla | ||
ablative | aliakselta | aliaksilta | ||
allative | aliakselle | aliaksille | ||
essive | aliaksena | aliaksina | ||
translative | aliakseksi | aliaksiksi | ||
abessive | aliaksetta | aliaksitta | ||
instructive | — | aliaksin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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- “alias”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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Learned borrowing from Latin aliās (“at another time; elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).
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alias
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alias m (plural alias)
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Learned borrowing from Latin alias.
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alias
- alias, also known as
- Synonyms: anders, eigentlich, benannt
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Further reading edit
- “alias” in Duden online
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Unadapted borrowing from Latin alias.
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alias
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alias m (invariable)
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- ^ alias in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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From alius.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.li.aːs/, [ˈälʲiäːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.li.as/, [ˈäːliäs]
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aliās (not comparable)
- (time) at a time other than the present; at another time, at other times, on another occasion, sometimes
- (place) at another place, elsewhere
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type | demonstrative | anaphoric | identity | interrogative/ relative |
indefinite | negative | other | ||||||
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proximal | medial | distal | relative | indefinite | universal | free choice | negative polarity | ||||||
basic | hic | iste, istic | ille, illic | is | ipse, īdem | quis/quī | quisquis, quīcumque | quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam | quisque | quīvis, quīlibet | quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam | nēmō, nihil, nūllus | alius |
dual | uter | utercumque | alteruter | uterque | utervīs, uterlibet | neuter | alter | ||||||
place | hīc | istīc | illīc | ibī̆ | ibī̆dem | ubī̆ | ubiubi, ubī̆cumque | alicubī, uspiam | ubīque | ubivīs, ubilibet | usquam | nusquam, nūllibī | alibī, aliās |
source | hinc | istinc | illinc | inde | indidem | unde | undecumque, undeunde | alicunde | undique | °undelibet | aliunde | ||
destination | hūc, °hōrsum | istūc, °istōrsum | illūc, °illōrsum | eō | eōdem | quō, quōrsum | quōquō, quōcumque | aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum | quōvīs, quōlibet | quōquam | nusquam, nūllōrsum | aliō, aliōrsum | |
method, means, path, place |
hāc | istāc | illāc | eā | eādem | quā | quāquā, quācumque | aliquā | quāque | quāvīs, quālibet | nēquāquam, haudquāquam | aliā | |
manner | hōc modō | istō modō | illō modō | ita, sīc, eō modō |
item, itidem | ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum | utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque | quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō | utique | quōmodolibet | ūllō modō | nūllō modō | aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō |
time | num, nunc | ōlim | tum, tunc | simul | quandō, ‡cum | cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque | quondam, aliquandō | quandōque | quandōlibet | umquam | numquam | aliās | |
quantity | tam | †tamen, †tandem | quam | †quamquam | aliquam | quamvīs, quamlibet | |||||||
size | tantus | tantusdem | quantus | quantuscumque | aliquantus | quantusvīs, quantuslibet | |||||||
quality | tālis | quālis | quālis, quāliscumque | aliquālis | quālislibet | ||||||||
number | tot | totidem | quot | quotquot, quotcumque | aliquot | quotlibet | |||||||
order | totus | quotus | quotuscumque | aliquotus | quotuslibet | ||||||||
repetition | totiēns | quotiēns | quotiēnscumque | aliquotiēns | quotiēnslibet | ||||||||
multiplication | totuplex | quotuplex | |||||||||||
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative |
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aliās
References edit
- “alias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
- (ambiguous) more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
- (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
Polish edit
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Learned borrowing from Latin aliās.[1] First attested in the 19 century.[1]
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alias m inan
- (computing) alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks)
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alias
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “alias”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
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alias
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alias
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alias m (plural alias)
- alias
- Synonyms: sobrenombre, apodo, mote
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- “alias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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alias n
- an alias (name assumed, often to hide one's identity)
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Declension of alias | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | alias | aliaset | alias | aliasen |
Genitive | alias | aliasets | alias | aliasens |
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alias (not comparable)
- alias (not associated with law, but often somewhat jocular formality)
- Nisse alias Nisse med kniven
- Nisse alias Nisse with-the-knife