connotation
涵义,含义,内涵,意思是说
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Definitions
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- : the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”the act of connoting; the suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or expression, apart from its explicit meaning.
- : something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described: “Religion” has always had a negative connotation for me.
- : Logic. the set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and thus determining the range of objects to which that term may be applied; comprehension; intension.
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Examples
The “game manager” label carries a negative connotation, but Smith is one of the NFL’s best at protecting the ball.
Even the word audit itself has a lot of negative connotations, and that’s understandable.
The terms diverged when we filtered just for ones with negative connotations.
Whilst only 7% of queries will be impacted in initial roll-out, further expansion of this new passage indexing system could have much bigger connotations than one might first suspect.
This is not an example of AI taking away jobs and that more negative connotations that you get when you talk about AI and business.
But that has never struck me as terribly apt or helpful, despite its obviously negative connotation.
In case the connotation is lost, “Theater Kid” is not a good thing here.
“Linda Perry-style,” of course, carries with it a history and a very specific connotation.
Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield examines the negative connotation of the phrase and turns it into an affirmation.
It has this crazy negative connotation that I never understood.
To fix the connotation of a concrete name, or the denotation of the corresponding abstract, is to define the name.
Why, I should say it means 'skilful, clever,' and it carries with it the connotation of 'novel.'