See Also: alias(dictionary)
Alias(law)
alias 1, preposition(dictionary)
alias 2, noun(dictionary)
ALIAS, practice(law)
ALIAS SUMMONS:(law)

zealous (iou) and alias (iou)


zealous (iou)



zealous adjective. E16.
[from medieval Latin deriv. of Latin zelus (cf. medieval Latin gelositas): see ZEAL, -OUS.]
Full of zeal; active in the Promotion of a person or cause. (Foll. by for, to do.) E16.
Ld Macaulay The House of Commons..more zealous for royalty than the king. D. L. Sayers The money..might, by zealous enquirers, have been traced to Lord Peter Wimsey's banking account.
b. Of an action etc.: marked by zeal. M16
W. S. Churchill The zealous campaign of the Whig Opposition in favour of the French revolutionaries.
Jealous (of). rare. M16-M17.
zealously adverb L16.
zealousness noun (now rare) M16.

alias (iou)



alias adverb & noun. LME.
[Latin = at another time, otherwise.]
A. adverb. Otherwise called or named; called at Other times. LME.
E. O'Neill It sounds to me like Bacchus, alias the Demon Rum, doing the talking.
b. noun.
Law. A second writ, containing the words sicut alias praecipimus, issued after the first has failed. LME-E19.
A name by which a person is or has been called on Other occasions; an assumed name. E17.
Physics & Telecommunications. Each of a set of signal frequencies which, when sampled at a given uniform rate, would give the same set of sampled values, and thus might be incorrectly substituted for one another when reconstructing the original signal. M20.
Computing. An alternative name or label that refers to a file, command, address, etc., and can be used to locate or access it. M20.
aliasing verbal noun (a) Physics & Telecommunications the misidentification of a signal frequency, introducing distortion or error; (b) Computing the use of aliases to designate files, commands, addresses, or Other items: M20.