Crossword clues for denote
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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
Wiktionary
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
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.