(computing, Internet) The distributed database, sometimes including all the supporting hardware or software infrastructure, the Internet uses to translate hostnames into IP addresses and provide other domain-related information.

Any of the code names used by NATO to identify Soviet and Chinese military equipment

(informal, humorous) A comical name for a person, typically derived from the name of their first pet and the name of the first street they lived on.

(finance) negotiable paper on which at least two persons are severally liable as separate makers, or, usually, one as maker and one as endorser

(idiomatic) To indicate what type of alcoholic beverage one wishes to be served.

Used to ask the name of a woman. / Used to ask the name of a female animal.

Used to ask the name of a man.

Synonym of for the love of God

(taxonomy, of a taxon) For a species or lower-order taxon, a type (specimen or illustration) that determines the application of the species name; for a genus, the type species; for a family, the type genus.

plural of name-bearing type