(adv.) In a connotative manner; expressing connotation.
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.
Phraseology
Definition:
(n.) Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.
(n.) A collection of phrases; a phrase book.
Example Sentences:
(1) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
(2) The phraseology is wrong: they don't have a little chart to tell them what proportion of women have had an abortion and in which age group.
(3) Techniques depend on mechanical analysis of sentence length, multiple prepositional phrases, direct phraseology, and arrangement of printed materials on the page.
(4) In view of an ever-increasing infiltration of the German medical vocabulary by Britishisms and Americanisms, a linguistic attempt was made to categorize this phraseology as follows: more or less incorporated terminology, "internationalized" terms, identical translations, unnecessary use of English expressions instead of German synonyms, borrowing from the English with an alteration of the original meaning, and German neologisms on the basis of English vocabular material.
(5) As evident from our results, a minimum of twelve-month treatment is followed by a remarkable improvement in 45% of the patients, 37% having recovered their phatic functions at least so that they were able to master simple everyday phraseology.
(6) One group read a literal version of the story and one group read a figurative version in which all textual answers to the question were masked with figurative phraseology.
(7) The discussion covers the following issues: the changes in the concept of alcohol abuse and the expansion of the concept of alcohol dependence, the withdrawal of indicators of social and occupational impairment, the phraseology used in the new indicators, the lack of a time frame to evaluate the indicators as present, and the relationship of the new diagnosis with compulsive behaviors and with the Alcohol Dependence Syndrome of the International Classification of Diseases-9th Revision.
(8) If the phraseology could be standardized, the new format would also allow easier data flow from one medical record to another and permit the construction of standardized disease profiles.
(9) Echoing the phraseology of Tony Blair's sole arts speech in 1997, he added: "I want people to say that on my watch, the arts didn't just weather an incredible storm but laid the foundations for a new golden age.
(10) Although the dry wit and felicitous phraseology were still much in evidence, this work struck a more sombre note.
(11) The phraseology is different, but the European court's approach is reminiscent of the "reasonable adjustment" concept applied in disability rights legislation.
(12) Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification … Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them … The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism.
(13) The name Twitch is drawn from gamer phraseology – which says everything about its specific appeal.
(14) Even so, the phraseology in which some experts talk about him sounds … odd.
(15) The Islam Versus Europe blogger cites 15 examples of duplications in phraseology from the book which Joya published the same year in which Hari subsequently printed the interview.