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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
denote
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
by
▪ The presence or absence of the first oral tentacle scale is denoted by + or -t.
▪ The dynamics depend only on the product of survival and fertility, which we denote by.
■ NOUN
term
▪ But for the writers and early translators of the Gospels, it was a very precise term, denoting a very exact figure.
▪ I use this term to denote the area within which party, lists are drawn up and candidates elected from them.
word
▪ From denoting women friends or gossips, the word came to denote the speech of gossips.
▪ Gary Regan: Ah, martini: The very word denotes sophistication.
▪ In other words it denoted the duly consecrated and divinely endorsed king.
▪ Thus, it is clear that normal speakers do not have a determinate concept of the things these words denote.
▪ Canonical traits are not only to be found in words denoting living things.
▪ Since the household was peripatetic, none of these words denotes a room or a building.
■ VERB
use
▪ Arabic numerals are used to denote further divisions, in an integral manner, running from 1 to 9999, as necessary.
▪ But the word can also be used to denote the idea that religion does not matter because it is not true.
▪ The dashpot is used to denote the retarded nature of the response of a material to any applied stress.
▪ Furthermore, it is also used to denote a belief in the uncontrollable and wildly sensual nature of women.
▪ In this book I use it to denote an uncritical obsession with consumption.
▪ Also used to denote a specially styled company name designed as part of a corporate image.
▪ The term carer or family carer will be used to denote those doing unpaid family care.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Each X on the map denotes 500 people.
▪ The dotted line on the graph denotes profits.
▪ The English word "family" used to denote all the people in the house, including servants.
▪ The quantity denoted by the letter E varies from experiment to experiment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arrows denote the positions of the close migrating bands.
▪ It can also denote an idea.
▪ Rostra on different levels denoted the central acting area, with massed choirs on one side.
▪ That does not denote a huge surge for socialism, or even anything remotely like it.
▪ The loss of colour does not denote any particular condition.
▪ The notation is primarily letters, but it also uses numbers to denote concepts in the auxiliary schedules.
▪ Thus main classes are denoted by 300, 600, 800 and so on, and not just 3 or 6.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denote

Denote \De*note"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Denoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Denoting.] [L. denotare; de- + notare to mark, nota mark, sign, note: cf. F. d['e]noter. See Note.]

  1. 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.

    The better to denote her to the doctor.
    --Shak.

  2. To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean.

    A general expression to denote wickedness of every sort.
    --Gilpin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
denote

1590s, from Middle French dénoter (14c.), from Latin denotare "denote, mark out," from de- "completely" (see de-) + notare "to mark" (see note (v.)). Related: Denoted; denoting.

Wiktionary
denote

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To indicate; to mark. 2 (context transitive English) To make overt. 3 (context transitive English) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.

WordNet
denote
  1. v. be a sign or indication of; "Her smile denoted that she agreed"

  2. have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' " [syn: refer]

  3. make known; make an announcement; "She denoted her feelings clearly" [syn: announce]

Usage examples of "denote".

The signature below was a crabbed scrawl that might denote Roger Aston or Barbara Walters, for all he could tell.

This plainly denotes their present suffering in the Babylonish captivity, and their despair of being delivered from it.

Koja noted the curious phrase Chanar used, which apparently denoted some close bond between the general and the khahan.

The fade of his laugh denoted that his fate had been the first, but the mere memory of that mirth was a prophecy that the crooks would perish from the same devastating cause.

This does not imply an actual confusion in identity, but his use of the term shows that the child interprets the new object through a crude concept denoted by the word papa.

In the shadows of the buildings and out beneath the radiance of the Martian moons moved the great herd of thoats and zitidars, the latter grunting their low gutturals and the former occasionally emitting the sharp squeal which denotes the almost habitual state of rage in which these creatures passed their existence.

The description of Britain is given in very nearly the same terms, by Orosius, Bede, and others, but the numbers denoting the length and breadth and other dimensions, are different in almost every MS.

There is here also an additional evidence of phoneticism in the fact that, while one of the symbols used to denote this bird shows simply its head, and is surely not phonetic, the other is entirely different and bears no resemblance whatever to any feature or characteristic of the bird.

As there are three numbers in each short column we take for granted, judging by what has been shown in regard to the series on Plates 46-50, that the lowest of the three denotes days, the middle months, and the upper years, and that the intervals are the same between these columns as between the day columns under them.

Keyoke wore his ceremonial helm, the feather plumes denoting his office brushing the lintel of the doorway as he entered.

Once she had identified for him the shapes of the leaves and twigs that denoted edible plants, he was an indefatigable assistant, digging with great patience and concentration through the rockiest and most impenetrable soil.

In those sacraments which have a corporeal matter, this matter needs to be applied by a minister of the Church, who stands in the place of Christ, which denotes that the excellence of the power which operates in the sacraments is from Christ.

The term obsession is employed by psychic researchers to denote the abnormal influence of spirits on the living.

By this means, measuring the distance from the soundings to the ranges of the stakes, we can denote on the map the shape and depth of sunken rocks.

There were carved tanks and artillery guns, squares and circles with flags standing over them denoting armed units, colored black or red, German or Russian.