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🕵️ A secret name 🕵️ To give secret name
to codename

to codename

2 5.8
To give a secret name to a person, project, or operation
  • verb
  • /ˈkoʊdˌneɪm/
translation icon : nombrar en clave
  • Finnish mobile startup Jolla has announced it will be unveiling its forthcoming MeeGo-based mobile OS, codenamed Sailfish, at an event in Finland next month.
  • codenamed Project
  • codenamed Operation
  • update that's codenamed

And I think the next stage was codenamed Algol XA little subcommittee gets appointed with perhaps LED I think by Nicholas Vegas, I'm not sure.

Examples

  • Not long after these sessions, the team decided it wanted to get some feedback from outside of the Seattle community and sought to seed the app, then codenamed Digital Art, with some of the best experts they could find to get their take on Fresh Paint.

    Blog text (30)

  • The police committee investigating the murder series was tellingly codenamed "Bosphorus."

    Blog text (13)

  • The man who was put in charge of this special unit is codenamed The Soldier.

    The Soldier (1982)

  • Previously codenamed "Cyberpunk," it now has an official title.

    Blog text (10)

  • It's codenamed "Proto," and it will fit snugly between the One V and One S.

    Blog text (7)

  • They codenamed it Ultra.

    The Imitation Game (2014)

  • In 2009, the Indian Army carried out top-secret war games, codenamed Divine Matrix, aimed at analyzing China's threat to the country.

    Blog text (33)

  • In March 2003, the new chip for laptops, which had been codenamed Banias, after a natural spring in Israel's north, was released as the Centrino.

    Academic text (2009)

  • We've mentioned the next major release of Windows Phone—codenamed Mango—at various conferences during the past few months and provided some brief peeks.

    Blog text (13)

  • The secret mission was codenamed Thunderbird to maintain confidentiality.

Synonyms

to name
vsto codename
∞ 1.0

To give a word people use to identify someone or something

is used for secret or confidential labels meant to hide identity

Surface Forms

codename infinitive
codnamed past
codnamed past participle
codenameing present participle
codenames third person singular

Morphology

codename = codename (transparent) = code + name

This is a regular conversion from the noun 'codename' to a verb meaning 'to assign a code name'.

Etymology

The word codenamed is used when someone gives a codename to something. It comes from code ('secret set of signs') and name ('label'), so to be codenamed is to be given a 'secret name' to keep a person, project, or operation private.