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Alias

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An assumed name: The swindler worked under various aliases.

n. Electronics A false signal in telecommunication links from beats between signal frequency and sampling frequency.

ad. Also known as; otherwise: Johnson, alias Johns.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

ad. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.

ad. 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; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

n. Another name; an assumed name.

n. A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

n. An abbreviation that replaces a string of in-game commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.

n. An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.

v. To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.

v. to become indistinguishable

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

ad. Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful.

ad. At another time.

n. A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

n. Another name; an assumed name.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

At another time; in another place; in other circumstances; otherwise.

n. An assumed name; another name.

n. [From words in the writ, Sicut alias præcipimus, as we at another time command.] In law, a second writ or execution issued when the first has failed to serve its purpose. Also used adjectively: as, an alias execution.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

ad. as known or named at another time or place

n. a name that has been assumed temporarily

Word Usage

"Meanwhile Cormac -- alias Branwen, _alias_ the little old woman -- forsook the refuge of the Hebrew's house, and, in her antique capacity, paid a visit one afternoon to the palace of Hudibras."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

name

Synonym

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otherwise name AKA pseudonym

Same Context

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