What's the difference between connote and swallow?

Connote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.
  • (v. t.) To imply as an attribute.

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.

Swallow


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
  • (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
  • (v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
  • (v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
  • (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
  • (v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
  • (v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.
  • (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
  • (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
  • (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
  • (n.) The act of swallowing.
  • (n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
  • (n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
  • (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
  • (n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
  • (n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
  • (2) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
  • (3) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
  • (4) All patients received an X-ray study of swallow at 3 months after the operation.
  • (5) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
  • (6) The patients with SS produced swallowing durations significantly longer (p less than 0.05) than those of the controls for each of the two conditions.
  • (7) The anesthesiologist assessed the degree of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively prior to pharmacologic reversal either by the standard method of visually counting the number of evoked thumb twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve (i.e., thumb train-of-four count), or by an alternative method such as 1) visually counting the number of evoked orbicularis oculi muscle twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the facial nerve, or 2) observing the patient for clinical evidence of partial recovery (e.g., swallowing or attempts to breathe).
  • (8) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
  • (9) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
  • (10) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
  • (11) Contrast esophagography and swallow in the lateral projection will confirm the diagnosis.
  • (12) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
  • (13) We conclude that retained gastric peristaltic function is not a prerequisite for a good clinical outcome for swallowing and that despite vagotomy, the stomach continues to produce enough acid to maintain an acidic pH.
  • (14) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
  • (15) An example is given illustrating 10D movements due to swallowing, speech and respiration.
  • (16) Swallowing of foreign bodies in elder patients is often explained by a decrease in psychological or neurological function, which undoubtedly may occur.
  • (17) A chronological subdivision of the swallowing act is needed for a step-by-step analysis.
  • (18) Information provided by postlaryngectomy barium swallow appeared to predict, but not prevent salivary fistula formation.
  • (19) It is especially suitable for patients having compliance problems or difficulty in swallowing tablets.
  • (20) Stockman said much of the $1.6tn spent by the Federal Reserve as part of its QE policy was swallowed by Wall Street and simply made bankers richer.