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Meanings of denotation in English

Portuguese
denotação
Catalan
extensió
Spanish
extensión

The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to.

denotação
Portuguese
denotação
Spanish
indicación

The act of indicating or pointing out by name.

denotação
Russian
означающее
Portuguese
sentido literal
Catalan
denotació
Spanish
denotacion

Translation of a sign to its literal meaning, more or less like dictionaries try to define it.

означающее
Usage of denotation in English
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The left handles denotation, he clarifies, the right deals with connotation.
The Guardian
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In denotation the genus includes the species; in connotation the species includes the genus.
Logic: Deductive and Inductive
3
Extension = breadth = compass = application = denotation.
Deductive Logic
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By this course the denotation and connotation of abstract and of general names would be exactly reversed.
Logic: Deductive and Inductive
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Now, identity of denotation can only be predicated in an affirmative proposition: one premise, then, must be affirmative.
Logic: Deductive and Inductive
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This model in particular is the FXE which is the Super Glide, that was the denotation of the era.
Wired
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Pull denotation codes and send then down".
Ghosts of Onyx
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But the wider we try in this way to make the denotation of the term the vaguer grows the connotation.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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By these latter words, as the cause, so the extension of this curse is expressed; and that under a threefold denotation.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
10
Give two examples of words whose denotation is fixed, but whose connotation or emotional implications would be different with different people.
The Making of Arguments
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Words have two powers: the power to name what they mean, or denotation; and the power to suggest what they imply, or connotation.
A Study of Fairy Tales
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In general, we have considered techspeak any term that communicates primarily by a denotation well established in textbooks, technical dictionaries, or standards documents.
The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
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The unceasing denotations would then smoothly transition to the second layer.
Devourer
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Explain and illustrate what is meant by the Denotation and Connotation of a Term.
Logic: Deductive and Inductive
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Webster's dictionary gives to them the following denotations, or definitions:
Writing for Vaudeville
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These denotations would blow-off a complete stratum of lunar matter.
Devourer