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denote

[ dih-noht ]

verb (used with object)

, de·not·ed, de·not·ing.
  1. to be a mark or sign of; indicate:

    A fever often denotes an infection.

    Synonyms: evidence, signify, signal, mark

  2. to be a name or designation for; mean.
  3. to represent by a symbol, or to be a symbol for.


denote

/ dɪˈnəʊt /

verb

  1. to be a sign, symbol, or symptom of; indicate or designate
  2. (of words, phrases, expressions, etc) to have as a literal or obvious meaning


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Derived Forms

  • deˈnotable, adjective
  • deˈnotement, noun

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Other Words From

  • de·not·a·ble adjective
  • de·note·ment noun
  • un·de·not·a·ble adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of denote1

First recorded in 1585–95; from Middle French dénoter, Latin dēnotāre “to mark out,” equivalent to dē- de- + notāre “to mark”; note

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Word History and Origins

Origin of denote1

C16: from Latin dēnotāre to mark, from notāre to mark, note

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Example Sentences

The rivalry game in Dallas often denotes the moment pragmatism makes its way into the postseason-expectation conversation.

Those rocky deposits denote the edges of ancient, bulldozing glaciers.

To synchronize all the data, the team added an artificial “marking signal”—a strange-looking electrical pattern—into brain recordings to denote the start of an experiment.

The children were given wristbands denoting their group’s color.

The title tag denotes what will appear as the page title in search results, and the meta description is the descriptive text that appears just below the title in those results.

There are different types of kimonos to denote something about the wearer, married or unmarried, young or old.

And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.

The notion expanded to denote a personal spirit and protector by the time Horace and Ovid wrote in the first century BC.

[...] Western societies almost never give their children names which denote violence.

The word citronette has come into vogue to denote vinaigrette made with citrus juice in place of all or part of the vinegar.

In Scotland, even a beggar has none of those abject manners that denote his class elsewhere.

The reception of it did not imply the attainment of grace; but as a sign, it was appointed to denote grace received.

This again was used equally to denote a potentate of either sex, until at last we find the interjection dame!

When we swung into the clearing there was nothing in his appearance to denote the terrible experience he had passed through.

The differentia should include all the members that the term denotes, and it should exclude all that it does not denote.

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