(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
(2) At least five terms which connote power of muscular performances are used today.
(3) With respect to the relative case fatality rates, the complements of the relative survival rates, the eight-year rate of 19 percent for the BCDDP versus that of 35 percent for SEER connotes 46 percent fewer women dying in the BCDDP group.
(4) Such words, spoken by a German politician, have the worst possible connotations for Poles.
(5) Such plants have been used for many centuries for the pungency and flavoring value, for their medicinal properties, and, in some parts of the world, their use also has religious connotations.
(6) Using the example of the stress concept, it is suggested that it is a 'key word' with denotative and connotative meanings accessible to professional and laymen, contributing to explore the 'gray zone' between 'health' and 'disease' by linking psychological, social and biological determinants of 'well-being' and 'discomfort'.
(7) So there were no gender connotations whatsoever in the choice?
(8) Certainly, "celebrity", even though it's craved by many, has negative connotations.
(9) It now connotes much more than an economic strategy, evoking, as the phrase “winter of discontent” did for so many years, a much broader sense of unease.
(10) Two main techniques are the study of longitudinal data (where time-spaced studies on the same population are available) and of age-ranked, cross-sectional data (where the lack of declining stature with age connotes the absence of a secular trens).
(11) Descriptive, stipulative, and connotative definitions of role strain are derived, and necessary and relevant properties are proposed.
(12) Because its histologic morphology bears a striking resemblance to Brunn's nests and because the term papilloma of the urinary bladder connotes potential malignant change, we propose the designation brunnian adenoma.
(13) One of the reasons that mindfulness is really catching on is that it can be delivered in a way that is entirely secular, stripped of any religious connotations, making it entirely acceptable to the wider population.
(14) When grouped into the 6 key words, the opinions uncovered a vast somatic field, confusion couched in metonymic figures of speech, such as using the term "woman" for "mental patient," moral, genital and sexual connotations.
(15) Elevated plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily connote elevated tumor tissue levels of CEA, and conversely, normal plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily mean low levels of tumor CEA.
(16) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.
(17) Patients expecting to receive psychotropic drug gave significantly more often positive emotional connotations about the presumed modes of action of these drugs than patients without such an expectation.
(18) Traditions and customs related to the consumption of alcohol still have a strong positive connotation in France.
(19) In the introduction the author submits association, connotations, and definitions of basic ethical terms, along with a classification of ethics.
(20) It’s obviously got some racial connotations to it, we’ve got our head in the sand and we don’t think it does.
Mishmash
Definition:
(n.) A hotchpotch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(2) Chelsea may believe they are capable of more than the mishmash they have offered up previously in the aftermath of this win.
(3) In the approach to war, both the US and the UK governments mobilised a mishmash of arguments in a campaign of persuasion that was based not on rigorous analysis of intelligence but on the selective use of data and informants.
(4) The government’s decision to back a third runway at Heathrow has been informed by a mishmash of misinformation and missing information.
(5) This audience included 1.1 million watching the BBC HD simulcast – a frisky figure for a channel that has otherwise struggled to establish itself, featuring as it does a mishmash of programming from all the corporation's TV channels other than BBC1 (which has its own dedicated HD channel).
(6) On one level, Reddit is a mishmash of literally thousands of different communities, all overlapping slightly.
(7) It is otherwise a mishmash of free-market wizardry and global cop role-playing.
(8) I think it is just about one of the most shocking things that I have seen in my lifetime in this country.” At Ukip’s biggest ever conference, held in Ed Miliband’s constituency town of Doncaster, the party unveiled a mishmash of policies designed to appeal to former Labour and former Conservative voters.
(9) ‘This guy is making progress’ O’Malley is a mishmash of a stray Kennedy and the type of policy obsessive who even thinktanks keep locked away in a back office cubicle.
(10) The result isn't the mishmash you'd expect (despite the eccentric dish names).
(11) Momentum is a mishmash of sensibilities but any comparison with Militant is overblown.
(12) In all three acts, Kawase sings in an enticingly awkward mishmash of English and Japanese, sometimes starting a sentence in one language and finishing it in the other.
(13) Like many of the systems set up in the rush to independence, education throughout South Sudan is a mishmash of ideals and the possible.
(14) Underlying the unloved mosaic of contemporary British benefits lurks a mishmash of half-forgotten principles.
(15) It's also an odd mishmash of sensibilities: Depp; Thompson (but not good Thompson); and revivified actor-writer-director Bruce Robinson, who was slowly coaxed out of retirement by Depp himself for the first time since the debacle that was Jennifer 8.
(16) The urban heat island effect (and all its attendant causes, effects, and cause-effect mishmashes ) will expand its reach, for example raising temperatures in the Piedmont region by between 2-6C.
(17) Stagg was fortunate in that the judge in the original case, Mr Justice Ognall, was robust and self-confident enough to see the case against him for what it was – a mishmash of suppositions and mild coincidences, sprinkled with some fanciful psychological speculation.
(18) As part of the debate surrounding the 1988 Education Reform Act, Hull wrote Mishmash (1991), a devastating analysis of the use of food metaphors by rightwing opponents of an inclusive and pluralistic religious education and his work continued to oppose “religionism”, Hull’s term for those protecting themselves from “contamination” from other faiths and worldviews by withdrawing into their own tribalistic enclaves.
(19) The ideas in the original consultation document, which emerged from work in the Centre for Social Justice , were roundly condemned by most authoritative commentators; they had muddled measures, indicators, associations, consequences and risks in a multi-dimensional mishmash, which was almost certainly impossible to deliver, technically or data-wise.
(20) Perhaps only an estate agent could say that about a mishmash of camouflage and country house green.