6.Such homesign systems far outstrip their parents' gestures; a parent's raised finger meaning " Wait" may be adopted by a child to connote events in the future.
8.Connotative Meaning: Connotative meaning includes the emotional, evaluative, or subjective associations attached to a word. For instance, the word " home" may connote feelings of warmth, comfort, and security.
9.It was very dull and human; having given ear to it Anthony, whose mind was freshened by his week in New York, renewed his deep loathing for the military profession and all it connoted.
10.The concept of " the Son of God" does not connote a concrete person in history, an isolated and definite individual, but an " eternal" fact, a psychological symbol set free from the concept of time.
11.As the other one of a series of two, an alternate may stand for " a substitute, " but an alternative, although used in a similar sense, connotes a matter of choice that is never present with alternate.
12.Just as Vietnam gave us " escalate, " Watergate gave us a whole lexicon of words connoting obstruction and deceit, including " deep-six, " " launder, " " enemies list" and other " gate" -suffix scandals (" Irangate" ).