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What does denote mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word denote? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
  2. (transitive) To make overt.
  3. (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.
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Oddly enough, the same gesture is also used to denote bank managers, estate agents, lawyers, and football team managers.
The totality of living organisms is the biosphere, although this term is also used to denote the environment inhabited by living organisms.
The meteorologists who make TV weather maps might denote heavy rainfall with one color and light rainfall with another.
By 1400 the meaning had broadened to indicate somewhere muddy, and over time came to denote something that was soggy, mushy, splashy or slushy.
But does a well-stocked video collection denote a cinephile or just a videophile?
A light burned outside the door of the aumbry to denote the presence of the sacrament.

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