Examples of “alias” in a Sentence

noun A false or assumed name used instead of a person's real one.

• The spy traveled under the alias "Mr. Grant".
• Police discovered the suspect had used three different aliases.
• The author published her first novel under an alias to avoid attention.

noun (computing) A short alternative name that stands in for a longer command, file, or database column.

• He set up an alias so typing "gs" would run the full git status command.
• I created an alias for the long folder path to save typing.
• Each table in the query has an alias, which keeps the code shorter.

verb To give something an additional, alternative name.

• You can alias the column so the report shows "Total Sales" instead of "sum_col_4".
• Let's alias the long server address as "home" in the settings file.
• If you alias the function, older scripts will keep working under its previous name.