Foxhunt vs Denotation - What's the difference?
foxhunt | denotation |
To hunt foxes; normally with dogs.
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The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
(logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
(philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word
(semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
(semiotics) The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary
(computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
(media-studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
As nouns the difference between foxhunt and denotation
is that foxhunt is a hunt for foxes; normally with dogs while denotation is the act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes.As a verb foxhunt
is to hunt foxes; normally with dogs.foxhunt
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See also
*("foxhunt" on Wikipedia)denotation
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(wikipedia denotation)Noun
(en noun)- The denotations of the two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different.