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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hint at |
| Synonyms: | advert, bring up, imply, insinuate, intimate, point, refer, suggest |
| Notes: | allude is 'mention indirectly, hint at' and refer is 'mention directly' elude means to escape or evade from while allude means to make a more or less indirect reference to |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | insinuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hint, suggest |
| Synonyms: | allude, ascribe, connote, imply, impute, indicate, intimate, mention, propose, purport, refer, signify |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, withhold |
| Main Entry: | intimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest; tip off |
| Synonyms: | affirm, air, allude, announce, assert, aver, avouch, communicate, connote, declare, drop a hint, expose, express, hint, impart, imply, indicate, infer, insinuate, leak, let cat out of bag, let it be known, make known, make noise, profess, remind, spill the beans, spring, state, utter, vent, voice, warn |
Example Sentences
- Throughout their correspondence, they allude to the lyrics, attesting to their powerful long-distance connection.
- To the general public these contorted shapes appear to allude to nature.
- Silk drapes stitched with tiny dragonflies allude to her love of nature and the outdoors.
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, convey |
| Synonyms: | add up, adumbrate, allude, allude to, argue, attest, augur, betoken, connote, denote, designate, determine, drive at, express, foreshadow, foretell, herald, hint at, imply, import, indicate, intimate, involve, name, point to, portend, presage, promise, purport, represent, say, speak of, spell, stand for, suggest, symbolize, tell the meaning of, touch on |
| Notes: | the median is the halfway point, dividing a series of numbers in half - while a mean is the average of the sum of the series |
| Main Entry: | notice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | observe, perceive |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, advert, allude, catch, clock, descry, detect, dig*, discern, distinguish, espy, flash on, get a load of, heed, look at, make out, mark, mind, note, pick up on, recognize, refer, regard, remark, see, spot, take in |
| Antonyms: | ignore, miss, neglect, overlook |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | point out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call attention to |
| Synonyms: | advert, allude, bring up, denote, designate, identify, indicate, mention, refer, remind, reveal, show, specify |
| Antonyms: | distract |
| Main Entry: | refer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mention |
| Synonyms: | accredit, adduce, advert, allude, ascribe, assign, associate, attribute, bring up, charge, cite, credit, designate, direct attention, excerpt, exemplify, extract, give as example, glance, hint, impute, indicate, insert, instance, interpolate, introduce, invoke, lay, make allusion, make mention of, make reference, name, notice, point, point out, put down to, quote, speak about, speak of, specify, touch on |
| Main Entry: | suggest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imply; bring to mind |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, advert, allude, be a sign of, connote, cross the mind, denote, evoke, hint, indicate, infer, insinuate, intimate, lead to believe, occur, point, point in direction of, promise, put in mind of, refer, represent, shadow, signify, symbolize, typify |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Mean. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
mean, medium, intermedium, average, balance, mediocrity, generality; median, mode; golden mean (mid-course) [more]; middle; compromise; middle course, middle state; neutrality.
-verbs
split the difference; take the average; reduce to a mean; strike a balance, pair off.
-adjectives
mean, intermediate; middle; average; neutral; mediocre, middle-class; commonplace (unimportant).
-adverbs
on an average, in the long run; taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis, in round numbers.
-phrases
medium tenuere beati.
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