nennen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- dub verb To give something a name or nickname.
- mention verb To refer to or speak about something briefly, without going into detail.
- name noun A word or phrase used to identify a specific person, place, or thing.
- state noun The particular condition someone or something is in at a given time.
Senses
nennen is used for these senses in English:
- be called To have a specific name.
- call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- dub (transitive, now, informal) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c.]
- mention To make a short reference to something.
- name (transitive) To mention, specify.
- state (transitive) To make known.
call — full definition
- verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
- verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
- verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
- noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.
dub — full definition
- verb To give something a name or nickname.
- verb To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a translated or new one.
- noun A remix of a song, especially in reggae, with vocals stripped out and effects added.