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- указывать; показывать; отмечать

to denote the hour — показывать время 

- книжн. показывать, свидетельствовать

a face that denotes energy — лицо, которое дышит энергией /излучает энергию/ 
here everything denotes peace — здесь всё дышит покоем 
to denote an approaching storm — предвещать бурю 

- выражать, обозначать

to denote a thing — обозначать предмет 

- значить, означать
- лог. иметь, определённый объём (о понятии)

Мои примеры

Her smile denoted that she agreed. 

Её улыбка означала согласие.

Her death denoted the end of an era. 

Ее смерть означает конец эпохи.

She denoted her feelings clearly 

Она ясно выразила свои чувства.

A quick pulse denotes fever. 

Частый пульс указывает на лихорадочное состояние.

The circlets which in cartography denote cities or towns. 

Кружочки, которыми в картографии обозначают города.

Such an entry shall be denoted in the register by an asterisk. 

Такая запись отмечается в журнале звёздочкой.

A falling barometer denotes an approaching storm. 

Падение барометра свидетельствует о приближающемся шторме.

The word “derby” can denote a horse race or a kind of hat. 

Слово «derby» может обозначать лошадиные скачки или род шляпы (шляпа-котелок).

‘multi-‘ denotes ‘many’   

…the prince wore a small gold coronet to denote his rank…  

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.

denote

[dıʹnəʋt]

1. 1) указывать; показывать; отмечать

to denote the hour — показывать время

2)

показывать, свидетельствовать

a face that denotes energy — лицо, которое дышит энергией /излучает энергию/

here everything denotes peace — здесь всё дышит покоем

to denote an approaching storm — предвещать бурю

2. 1) выражать, обозначать

to denote a thing — обозначать предмет

2) значить, означать

3.

иметь, определённый объём ()

Новый большой англо-русский словарь.
2001.

Смотреть что такое «denote» в других словарях:

• 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}.] 1. To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• denote — 1 signify, *mean, import Analogous words: betoken, bespeak, *indicate, attest, argue, prove: *intend, mean: *suggest, imply, hint, intimate, insinuate 2 Denote, connote and their corresponding nouns denotation, connotation are complementary… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• denote — [dē nōt′, dinōt′] vt. denoted, denoting [Fr dénoter < MFr < L denotare, to mark out, denote < de , down + notare, to mark < nota, NOTE] 1. to be a sign of; indicate [dark clouds denote rain] 2. to signify or refer to explicitly; stand …   English World dictionary

• dénoté — ⇒DÉNOTÉ, ÉE, part. passé et adj. I. Part. passé de dénoter. II. Adj., spéc. A. LOG. Qui se réfère à l extension d un concept. Quelle que soit la manière dont elle « coiffe » le message dénoté, la connotation ne l épuise pas (R. BARTHES, Éléments… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• denote — 1590s, from M.Fr. dénoter (14c.), from L. denotare denote, mark out, from de completely + notare to mark (see NOTE (Cf. note) (v.)). Related: Denoted; denoting …   Etymology dictionary

• denote — ► VERB 1) be a sign of; indicate. 2) be a name or symbol for. DERIVATIVES denotation noun denotational adjective denotative adjective. USAGE On the difference between denote and connote …   English terms dictionary

• denote — I verb be a name for, be a sign of, be an indication of, bespeak, betoken, convey a meaning, denominate, denotate, depict, depicture, designare, designate, express, imply, indicare, indicate, label, mark, mean, note, point out, portray, refer to …   Law dictionary

• dénoté — dénoté, ée (dé no té, tée) part. passé. Les dispositions de l âme dénotées par signes extérieurs …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d’Émile Littré

• denote — [v] designate, mean add up, announce, argue, bespeak, betoken, connote, evidence, express, finger, flash, hang sign on*, imply, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, make, mark, peg, prove, put down for, put finger on*, show, signify, spell, stand …   New thesaurus

• denoté — Denoté, [denot]ée. part …   Dictionnaire de l’Académie française

• denote — 01. According to my book on palm reading, fingers which are short and blunt in appearance [denote] a stubborn character. 02. Each black dot which appears on the website s world map [denotes] the death of a child due to starvation. 03. Very fancy… …   Grammatical examples in English

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to indicate, mark

to make overt

to convey as meaning

denote

/dɪˈnoʊt/

verb

denotes;

denoted;

denoting

/dɪˈnoʊt/

verb

denotes;

denoted;

denoting

[+ object]

formal

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

Denotation (semiotics)

In semiotics, denotation is the surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary.

Present

I denote

you denote

he/she/it denotes

we denote

you denote

they denote

Present continuous

I am denoting

you are denoting

he/she/it is denoting

we are denoting

you are denoting

they are denoting

Present perfect

I have denoted

you have denoted

he/she/it has denoted

we have denoted

you have denoted

they have denoted

Present perfect continuous

I have been denoting

you have been denoting

he/she/it has been denoting

we have been denoting

you have been denoting

they have been denoting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

Past

I denoted

you denoted

he/she/it denoted

we denoted

you denoted

they denoted

Past continuous

I was denoting

you were denoting

he/she/it was denoting

we were denoting

you were denoting

they were denoting

Past perfect

I had denoted

you had denoted

he/she/it had denoted

we had denoted

you had denoted

they had denoted

Past perfect continuous

I had been denoting

you had been denoting

he/she/it had been denoting

we had been denoting

you had been denoting

they had been denoting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

Future

I will denote

you will denote

he/she/it will denote

we will denote

you will denote

they will denote

Future continuous

I will be denoting

you will be denoting

he/she/it will be denoting

we will be denoting

you will be denoting

they will be denoting

Future perfect

I will have denoted

you will have denoted

he/she/it will have denoted

we will have denoted

you will have denoted

they will have denoted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been denoting

you will have been denoting

he/she/it will have been denoting

we will have been denoting

you will have been denoting

they will have been denoting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

Conditional

I would denote

you would denote

he/she/it would denote

we would denote

you would denote

they would denote

Conditional continuous

I would be denoting

you would be denoting

he/she/it would be denoting

we would be denoting

you would be denoting

they would be denoting

Conditional perfect

I would have denote

you would have denote

he/she/it would have denote

we would have denote

you would have denote

they would have denote

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been denoting

you would have been denoting

he/she/it would have been denoting

we would have been denoting

you would have been denoting

they would have been denoting

Conditional or «future-in-the-past» tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

Imperative

you denote
we let´s denote
you denote

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

Present Participle

denoting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

The translations of denote from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «denote» in English.

The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «denote» in the different countries.

List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «denote».

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «denote» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «denote» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs — in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

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2

Does Reaching Generativity Denote Lack of Depression Later …

Maureen Strasser. Abstract This study was conducted to investigate the possible
relationship between generativity and a healthy lifestyle and lack of depressive
symptoms later in life. A community sample of self selective samples of 101 …

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Deterministic Extraction from Weak Random Sources

Notation: We use [n] to denote the set {1,…,n}. Let Ω,Π be some finite sets. For x
∈ Ωn and i ∈ [n], we denote by x i the ith coordinate of x. Similarly, for a function
D : Π → Ωn and i ∈ [n], we denote by Di the function D restricted to the ith output
 …

4

Art and Representation: New Principles in the Analysis of …

This child was using a correct denotation rule — use lines to denote edges —
and a correct drawing rule — use oblique lines to represent edges in the third
dimension — but introduced a transparency, perhaps as the result of a planning
error.

5

The Theory of Generalized Dirichlet Forms and Its …

N, Q and R denote the set of natural, rational and real numbers. Rd, d C N,
denotes the d-dimensional Euclidean space, (-, -) the inner product, | — | the
corresponding norm and Br(x) := {yy E Rd, y — x < r) the open ball of radius r > 0
and center …

6

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II: Second …

We use i, j, k, m, n as indexes; a’s 1 to denote individual agents; A’s to denote
sets of agents; b’s to denote beliefs; g’s to denote goals; h’s to denote intentions;
ρ’s to denote plan templates; p’s to denote plan preconditions; q’s to denote plan
 …

7

Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications

Each equivalence definition specifies an equivalence relation, which we denote
by =. An equivalence relation has three important properties: it is symmetric (i = j
if and only if j = i), reflexive (i = i), and transitive (if i = j and j = k then i = k).

8

Invariant Differential Operators for Quantum Symmetric Spaces

CHAPTER 1 Background and Notation Let C denote the complex numbers, Q
denote the rational numbers, Z denote the integers, R denote the real numbers, N
denote the nonnegative integers, and q denote an indeterminate. Let {qr r G (Q)
 …

9

An Essay Towards a Practical English Grammar: Describing the …

Q. What do Adjectives that end in y denote ? A. They denote Plenty, or
Abundance. Q. What do Adjectives that end in iu signify ? A. They signify Fulness
. ^ What do Adjectives that end in some denote ? A. They also denote Fulness. Q.
What do …

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Representations of SL2(Fq)

If ∼ is an equivalence relation on E , we will denote by [E /∼] a set of
representatives for the equivalence classes under ∼. When this notation is used
the reader will have no difficulty verifying that the statement does not depend on
the choice …

The Savant of Spray Charts: Meet the New Star of Baseball Analytics

… not only show how much slower he’s hit the ball this season, but also to more accurately denote the general mood of Marlins fans these days. «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»

China’s Tanking Stock Market Plunges Even Further

In China, red is a lucky color. So instead of the normal crimson, the nation’s stock market uses green to denote shares that are down. As the … «TIME, Jul 15»

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… Super Furry lexicon, emerging as it does more than once in conversation with Ciarán to denote the antithesis, basically, of the group’s ethos. «Village Voice, Jul 15»

Greater New York Watch

Mr. Schumer cited a federal law that states an orange plug should be inserted into the barrel of a replica gun to denote it isn’t a real firearm. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»

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Mary Fallin isn’t removing that 10 commandments statue… yet

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County recovering from torrential rain, flooding

Patches of debris served to denote what had been high-water marks and city equipment was scraping mud from downtown streets that had … «New Albany Gazette, Jul 15»

Moral Injury Shows the Limits of Forgiveness

In the Atlantic, Maggie Puniewska describes a growing awareness of moral injury – the term used by professionals used to denote “a psychic … «Patheos, Jul 15»

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If you signed up for the first scheduled outing, you still must sign up for this one. Sign up in your playing group and denote guests by their name. «Ellwood City Ledger, Jul 15»

An American in Milano

(Jenny Vrentas/The MMQB); The helmets for Parker Orms (13) and T.J. Pryor (10) are adorned with a large white «A» to denote their status as … «The MMQB, Jul 15»

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