Denote
[dɪ'nəʊt] or [dɪ'not]
Definition
(verb.) have as a meaning; '`multi-' denotes `many' '.
(verb.) be a sign or indication of; 'Her smile denoted that she agreed'.
Edited by Alexander--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.
(v. t.) To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean.
Typist: Sean
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Signify, imply, betoken, indicate, typify, note, mark, designate, point out.
Typist: Wanda
Definition
v.t. to note or mark off: to indicate by a sign: to signify or mean: (log.) to indicate the objects comprehended in a class.—adj. Denō′table.—n. Denotā′tion that which a word names or indicates in contradistinction to that which it connotes or signifies.—adj. Denō′tative.—adv. Denō′tatively.—n. Denōte′ment (Shak.) a sign or indication.
Editor: Verna
Examples
- There are words which denote this attitude: concern, interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Ultimately, of course, they denote the things of our common sense acquaintance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What else did they denote? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Capacity may denote mere receptivity, like the capacity of a quart measure. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Straining his powers of listening to the utmost, he listened for any sound that might denote suspicion or alarm. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You have, undoubtedly; and there are situations in which very high spirits would denote insensibility. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But we use the word Life to denote the whole range of experience, individual and racial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Most persons probably stop with the idea that helmet denotes a queer kind of headgear a people called the Greeks once wore. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It denotes not a sentiment, but a practical attitude, a readiness to act without reserve or quibble. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This scheme denotes, of course, simply a perpetuation of the older social division, with its counterpart intellectual and moral dualisms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Educationally, this change denotes such a plan for the studies and method of instruction as has been developed in the previous chapters. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They're early with the kitchen fire, and that denotes good servants. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It denotes that he is subject to government, indeed; but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A murky red and yellow sky, and a rising mist from the Seine, denoted the approach of darkness. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And things great and small, heavy and light, as they are termed, will not be denoted by these any more than by the opposite names? Plato. The Republic.
- Their presence was denoted by sounds as of a congregation praying humbly, produced by their rubbing against each other in the slow wind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He answered quite seriously, and used the word as if it denoted some profession. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And even if intended to be cancelled, as might possibly be supposed to be denoted by these marks of fire, it is NOT cancelled. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His manner clearly denoted that he had never before seen them, nor imagined that the locket opened. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Mrs. Pegler's cup, rattling against her saucer as she held it, denoted some nervousness on her part. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Apothecaries' profit is become a bye-word, denoting something uncommonly extravagant. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Master and man are at length disturbed by footsteps in the passage, where they make an unusual sound, denoting the arrival of unusual company. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Popular terms denoting knowledge have always retained the connection with ability in action lost by academic philosophies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They seem to have been called customs, as denoting customary payments, which had been in use for time immemorial. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Louis