31 October 2014

connote

[kuh-noht]

verb (used with object), connoted, connoting.
1. to signify or suggest (certain meanings, ideas, etc.) in addition to the explicit or primary meaning:
The word “fireplace” often connotes hospitality, warm comfort, etc.
2. to involve as a condition or accompaniment:
Injury connotes pain.
verb (used without object), connoted, connoting.
3. to have significance only by association, as with another word:
Adjectives can only connote, nouns can denote.

Origin
Medieval Latin
1645-1655; < Medieval Latin connotāre, equivalent to Latin con- con- + notāre to note

Can be confused
connote, denote.

Synonyms
1. intimate, imply.

Examples from the web for connote
– It was felt to connote flash and ostentation rather than style and elegance.
– To me, they do not merely connote gender, but patriarchy.
– Let me remind you that words such as mistake connote negativity in human language.

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Anagram

not once
neon cot

Today’s aphorism

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

— William Shakespeare

On this day

31 October – Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve), celebrated in a number of countries on the eve of the Christian festival, All Hallows’ Day (or All Saints’ Day).

31 October 1517 – Protestant Revolution starts when Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the Wittenburg Church in Germany in protest against what he saw as corruption in the Catholic Church.

31 October 1876 – large cyclone strikes India, killing more than 200,000 people.

31 October 1941 – completion of Mt Rushmore sculptures near Keystone, South Dakota. It is a sculpture carved into the granite face of the mountain and ended because funding ran out. The sculpture features the faces of four U.S. presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Construction started on 4 October 1927. It was the brainchild of Doane Robinson. The carvings are 18m (60′) high and were carved by Gutzon Borglum and a team of 400 workers.

31 October 1984 – Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, assassinated by Sikh extremists.