| Meaning | Have as a meaning / meaning. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
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| Example | "'multi-' denotes 'many'" |
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| Synonym | refer |
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| Entailed by | allude, touch, advert | make a more or less disguised reference to |
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| Narrower | apply | Refer (a word or name) to a person or thing |
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| euphemize, euphemise | refer to something with a euphemism |
| express, state | Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. |
| hark back, return, come back, recall | go back to something earlier |
| name, identify | Give the name or identifying characteristics / characteristics of |
| slur | speak disparagingly of |
| twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate | Practice sophistry |
| Broader | mean, intend, signify, stand for | denote or connote |
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| Similar to | denote | Be a sign or indication of |
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| Spanish | denotar |
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| Catalan | denotar |
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| Adjectives | denotative, denotive | having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming |
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| denotative | in accordance with fact or the primary meaning / meaning of a term |
| Nouns | denotation | the most direct or specific meaning / meaning of a word or expression |
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