imply, connote
(verb) express or state indirectly
connote, predicate
(verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; “solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
connote (third-person singular simple present connotes, present participle connoting, simple past and past participle connoted)
(transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
(transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
(intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
(intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
• (possess an inseparable condition): entail, imply
• (express without overt reference): entail, imply
• (require as a logical predicate): predicate
• contone
Source: Wiktionary
Con*note", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Connoted; p.pr. & vb.n. Connoting.] Etym: [See Connotate, and Note.]
1. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.
2. (Logic)
Definition: To imply as an attribute. The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness." J. S. Mill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 December 2024
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
