Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Some small bird. Specifically— A titlark or pipit.
- n. A name formerly given in the custom-house to stock-fish.
- n. In bookbinding, impressing, usually in gold-leaf, on the back of a book the words selected for the title.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of title.
- n. The hedge sparrow, or titlene.
- n. The meadow pipit.
- n. obsolete stockfish
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The hedge sparrow; -- called also
titlene . Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs. - n. The meadow pipit.
- n. Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.
Etymologies
- Icelandic word for a tit sparrow. See tit ("a small bird"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“What designer Johnny_K might lack in titling, however, he more than compensates for in gameplay.”
“Examples that were cited were the 'large capitals' of Garamond at the Museum Plantin-Moretus, titling capitals among the 'Fell types' at the University Press, Oxford, a titling from the French foundry of Claude Mozet that was acquired by Benjamin Franklin, and the series of two-line capitals of the romain du roi at the Imprimerie nationale in France.”
“He talked about search engine optimization and the idea of titling your blog posts in a straightforward, easily-searchable way.”
“Personally, I felt the titling was an exercise in semantics.”
“Ha, that's funny because I do recall titling a previous entry "I hate college".”
“June 24th, 2009 The recently released 'Paying Guest' directed by Paritosh Painter has been well received by the audiences Keeping the appreciation and the applause in mind, it was well expected that the producer, Subhash Ghai would announce a sequel of the same Subhash Ghai had actually initially informed the director Paritosh Painter of making a sequel and he was infact, also toying the idea of titling the film as 'Chaar Yaar'.”
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“Various performers, on this occasions, sang late R.D. June 24th, 2009 The recently released 'Paying Guest' directed by Paritosh Painter has been well received by the audiences Keeping the appreciation and the applause in mind, it was well expected that the producer, Subhash Ghai would announce a sequel of the same Subhash Ghai had actually initially informed the director Paritosh Painter of making a sequel and he was infact, also toying the idea of titling the film as 'Chaar Yaar'.”
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“I agree with Ravi but also find the "titling" and "linking" also meaningful and useful.”
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“This is further reinforced by Barney's titling of his opera and film Khu--the name that the ancient Egyptians gave to the intellect, will, or soul that outlives the body and ascends to the stars.”
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“Since titling your flick after popular songs is still all the rage these days, can a movie called “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” be too far behind?”
Lists
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birds
birds with singular names from
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I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
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