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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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White markings probably denote his status as a titled member of the Peri warrior society.
Brackets denote operon boundaries and arrows indicate the direction of transcription of each gene.
He coined this latter term and employed the Greek letter lower case sigma to denote its population parameter.
A light burned outside the door of the aumbry to denote the presence of the sacrament.
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?

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