(in passive) Of a person, to have as one’s name; of a thing, to have as its name.
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I’m called John.
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A very tall building is called a skyscraper.
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The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
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2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist: