Denotation synonyms
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explicit meaning
(Slang) Verbal play, esp. as engaged in by urban African-Americans, involving boastful taunts, witty insults, indirect threats, etc.
(Biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
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The act or process of stating a precise meaning or significance; formulation of a meaning:
1769, Oxford Standard text, King James Bible: 1 Timothy, i, 15,
The definition of a message is a short communication sent from one person to another or the central theme or idea of a communication.
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The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
A sense of importance or purpose:
Reference means someone or something which is a source of information about a subject.
(Computers) A set of characters that follow a filename and are separated from it by a period, used to identify the kind of file:
Discovery made; information.
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signification (related)
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deictic (related)
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truth-conditions (related)
The definition of implication is something that is inferred.
Something that explains:
A posted notice bearing a designation, direction, or command:
A printed or written sign used to represent an operation, element, quantity, quality, or relation, as in mathematics or music.
Meaning; signification:
(Law) The state of mind necessary for an act to constitute a crime.
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A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification:
Value is the worth in goods, services or money of an object or person.
A meaning that is expressed or implied:
(Dated) significance
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