denote
IPA: dɪnˈoʊt
verb
- (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
- (transitive) To make overt.
- (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey as meaning.
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Examples of "denote" in Sentences
- Judah and Benjamin -- denote the southern kingdom.
- Some use the word to denote a set of religious beliefs.
- • The word “sex” is simply that—a word to denote whether a person is male or female.
- This led to the conception of an imponderable agency capable of certain movements, and to denote this agency the Greek word ether was borrowed.
- Here the terms used in Arabic denote, not the end of hostilities, but an armistice or truce, until such time that the war against Israel can be resumed with better prospects for success.
- Those terms denote "membership in an organization of the Department of the Navy that develops and executes military missions involving special operations strategy, doctrine, and tactics," the Navy said in its filings.
- Thus, the terms denote that a beneficial result has been conferred on a vertebrate subject with an autoimmune or pathogen-induced immunopathology disease or symptom, or with the potential to develop such a disease or symptom.
- In its present application, particularly, there is no design to let the term denote or insinuate a recourse to any expedients or any line of conduct that is in any degree legally dubious, or that is even of questionable legitimacy.
- But we haven't yet agreed on a word to denote what the human species is doing now: killing great ecosystems like the world's oceans, destroying the stable climate system upon which agriculture itself depends or driving more than half the species on Earth to extinction.
- By which it should seem that this order was not otherwise hereditary than a man's estate, nor did it give any claim to magistracy; wherefore you shall never find that it disquieted the commonwealth, nor does the name denote any more in Oceana than the duty of such a man's estate to the public.
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