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connote

/kuh-noht/US // kəˈnoʊt //UK // (kɒˈnəʊt) //

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    con·not·ed, con·not·ing.

    • : to signify or suggest in addition to the explicit or primary meaning: The word “fireplace” often connotes hospitality, warm comfort, etc.
    • : to involve as a condition or accompaniment: Injury connotes pain.
v.无主动词 verb
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    con·not·ed, con·not·ing.

    • : to have significance only by association, as with another word: Adjectives can only connote, nouns can denote.

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Examples

  • If “immunity” connotes complete protection, then no vaccine actually provides it.

  • This classification connotes innovation and promise surrounding the medium’s potential.

  • Just because it feels too severe to you and you believe it connotes something closer to Napoleon and Fidel Castro than 60-year-old Richard “Bigo” Barnett doesn’t mean Barnett didn’t engage in an insurrection.

  • “Designer brands connote wealth and a certain class that these people want to be part of,” he says.

  • Who or what “the dear bond” was is not explained, but we may connote the kindred surnames Goodbon, Goodbun, and Goodband.

  • But ileuede is not used elsewhere in L, and would connote decrepitude.

  • It is conceivable that two men may connote quite different things by the word symbol.

  • The using a name to connote attributes, turns the things, whether real or imaginary, into a class.

  • Likewise wealth and capital connote special social relations or categories.