denotation
- noun
- /ˌdɛnəˈteɪʃən/
- Specialized
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denotación
- But along the way, through banker alchemy, credit evolved from the legal-financial denotation of a promise to pay to the functional-dynamic equivalent of actual payment.
- denotations and connotations
Examples
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Denotation influences connotation.
Academic text (1998) -
Homosexuality will not only appear to pass from connotation to denotation, as in Williams's play, but also from this verbal order of signification to a visual one of perception.
Academic text (1997) -
Before discussing the consequences of such shifted denotation, it is worth describing some of the changes.
Academic text (1999) -
So instead we take another idea of Dana Scott and we construct denotations for these things.
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Images are not the property of The Weather Centre unless noted within the image by a denotation specifying that said image is indeed within The Weather Centre's realm.
Blog text (7) -
My ex-friends were exes in the denotation of the word but not the connotation.
Blog text (20) -
Discussions of translation theory and methodology to date share one thing in common: they tend to assume that meaning somehow resides in the language of the text itself and that such meanings can be accessed by close attention to the denotations and connotations of words in isolation and in combination with other words.
Academic text (2006) -
These choices, which overwhelmingly tend to have negative connotations or denotations, give rise to the tension and negative tone in the story and stylistically undercut the believability of the suddenly happy ending.
Academic text (1990) -
The since-repealed notice provisions required, amongst other items, denotation that a "purchase is subject to state use tax unless it is specifically exempt" and use tax forms may be found on the Vermont Department of Tax's website. Generally, the notice items are required on a webpage necessary to facilitate a transaction, catalog order form, or for phone orders the resultant documentation.
Academic text (2017) -
In linguistics, the term 'dog' has a denotation of a domesticated canine.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Denotation comes from the Latin parts de- and notare, where notare means 'to mark' and is the same root as English note. So denotation is about 'marking' or pointing to something by name, which is why it means indicating or referring to something.