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say it: NAY-ming
naming is a noun and adjective meaning "the verbal act of naming". It is pronounced /ˈneɪmɪŋ/ — NAY-ming. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
“the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee”
inclined to or serving for the giving of names
“the appellative faculty of children”
“the appellative function of some primitive rites”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for naming come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.