Sentences with phrase «eponym for»
Apple's iPad, the tablet device that has become so ubiquitious that it's now a proprietary eponym for tablets themselves (much to the chagrin of Microsoft), continues to make gains in law firm adoption.
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His former home is now a holocaust museum and, thanks to The London Times that coined the expression, quisling has become an eponym for traitor.
Though we think first of Java as an eponym for coffee (or, to some today, a computer language), it is in fact the trading of aromatic tropical spices on which the fortunes of the great island's colonizers and Western discoverers were first founded.
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No, I am not Roz... I am a Rozta» (big fan of Roz, and I made up the eponym) Roz is in the Indian Ocean, somewhere, rowing from east to west (Australia to Madgascar, I think) and you have in common with her that she is also naked (salt water and clothing make for a bad skin situation when one is in that environment for months on end) You should look her up... writes a fantastic blog.
Ken Langone, the extremely wealthy, blunt, opinionated eponym of the Medical Center is a major political donor who heads «Republicans for Cuomo.»
One use of the term «eponym» is in the description of the ancient Assyrian method of naming individual years after individuals, for whom modern historians use the term «eponym».