(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.
Peregrine
Definition:
(a.) Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic.
(n.) The peregrine falcon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Look out for peregrine falcons and ravens riding the cliffupdraughts, and in spring listen for the tinkling songs of redstarts.
(2) Tundra peregrine eggs contain an average of 889 parts of DDE per million (lipid basis); taiga peregrine eggs contain 673 parts per million; Aleutian peregrine eggs contain 167 parts per million; rough-legged hawk eggs contain 22.5 parts per million; and gyrfalcon eggs contain 3.88 parts per million.
(3) A significant post-prandial increase of plasma bile acid concentration (PBAC) was observed in peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus).
(4) Variation observed at one o of the sex-linked fragments in peregrines has proven to be useful in distinguishing a subset of the tundrius subspecies of this endangered raptor.
(5) We let the owners of grouse moors , 1% of the 1%, shoot and poison hen harriers, peregrines and eagles.
(6) The path follows the course of the river back to the roaring whirlpool – but between these forces of nature, it offers tranquility, surrounded not just by the forests but by hundreds of wildlife species, from rare flowers to abundant salamanders and peregrine falcons.
(7) "It was a peregrine back in the big storms of 1987.
(8) It later apologised after the review's author, former Sunday Telegraph editor Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, complained to the Press Complaints Commission.
(9) The authors suggest that disease simulation, peregrination, and imposture are secondary behavioral manifestations of pseudologia, which is deserving of additional study.
(10) Tundra and taiga peregrines have fledged progressively fewer young each year since 1966.
(11) It's not essentially to do with money: if you're a kid who goes to a museum and tries to draw a peregrine falcon, that's your art world.
(12) Münchhausen's syndrome is characterized by fictitious illnesses associated with hospital peregrination, pseudologia fantastica with a mythomanic discourse that includes strongly structured medical elements, passivity and dependance at examinations, and aggressiveness.
(13) On the basis of 3 new case reports and a statistic processing of literature case histories, this paper suggests that when using the original criteria by Asher, the syndrome constitutes a subtype of chronic factitious disorders, specially characterized by factitious illness, peregrination, pseudologia fantastica and dramatic admission circumstances.
(14) There is a highly significant negative correlation between shell thickness and DDE content in peregrine eggs.
(15) Studies on reproductive success in Great Britain and data on eggshell-thinning suggest that DDE residues above 20 ppm wet weight in peregrine eggs are associated with inability to maintain population levels.
(16) Yellowstone’s latest surveys also show that a five-year effort to conserve aerial predators such as hawks and eagles has been successful, with numbers of peregrines remaining stable and the nesting success of bald eagles and ospreys “above the long-term averages for both species during the last several years”.
(17) It's deep and Bravo does well to get a flying fist to the ball ahead of Sergio Ramos, who tends to be more dangerous in the air than a peregrine falcon.
(18) Norman Mailer asked for marijuana, and Sir Peregrine Worsthorne for hallucinogenic drugs, but these are not bad things to have to pass away the time, if one is inclined in that direction.
(19) We haven't been able to find anything more miserable than that, Peregrine, but were amused to find that Europe's least appealing club competition may well be the InterToto Cup.
(20) Like other birds of prey, the harrier has been protected by law since 1954, but while buzzards and peregrine falcons have recovered their numbers, in England, hen harriers are now close to extinction .