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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

named
     adj 1: given or having a specified name; "they called his name
            Jesus"; "forces...which Empedocles called `love' and
            `hate'"; "an actor named Harold Lloyd"; "a building in
            Cardiff named the Temple of Peace" [syn: called]
     2: bearing the author's name; "a named source"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Name \Name\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Named; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Naming.] [AS. namian. See Name, n.]
   1. To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle;
      to denominate; to style; to call.

            She named the child Ichabod.          --1 Sam. iv.
                                                  21.

            Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work
            Confusion named.                      --Milton.

   2. To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to
      refer to by distinctive title; to mention.

            None named thee but to praise.        --Halleck.

            Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the
            underlying dead.                      --Tennyson.

   3. To designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to
      nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for
      the wedding.

            Whom late you have named for consul.  --Shak.

   4. (House of Commons) To designate (a member) by name, as the
      Speaker does by way of reprimand.

   Syn: To denominate; style; term; call; mention; specify;
        designate; nominate.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

named

   <networking> Name Daemon.

    A Unix background process that converts
   hostnames to Internet addresses for the TCP/IP
   protocol.

   Unix manual page: named(8).

   See also DNS.

   (1995-03-28)