denote

• For example, I use the term table expression in place of the standard term query expression, because (a) the value such expressions denote is a table, not a query, and (b) queries aren't the only context in which such expressions are used anyway. —  O'Reilly News
• This would denote, the editorial continued, that men like Mr. Cornish, accustomed to the mighty world-pulse of New York, could find objects of pursuit equally worthy in Lattimore Which is mixed metaphor," Mr. Giddings admitted in confidence; "but," he continued, "if metaphors, like drinks, happen to be more potent mixed, the Herald proposes to mix 'em All these things consumed time, and still our life was one devoted to business exclusively. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
• In its present application, particularly, there is no design to let the term denote or insinuate a recourse to any expedients or any line of conduct that is in any degree legally dubious, or that is even of questionable legitimacy Sabotage so understood, as not comprising recourse to force or fraud, is a necessary and staple expedient of business management, and its employment is grounded in the elementary and indefeasible rights of ownership. —  An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
• It is worthy of notice that in the two we find precisely Landa's two characters for the letter B. Is it possible that the two principal parts of this compound character denote the Maya words oc be_, "foot journey" or "enters upon the journey"? —  Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
• This led to the conception of an imponderable agency capable of certain movements, and to denote this agency the Greek word ether was borrowed. —  Man or Matter

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