Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

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     Section III.  MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS
          1.  Natural Means
% —­ recognition of something by its features must be broken out into a separate entry.  Include the terms recognition, identification, dereplication, classification; note memory 505, identification (comparison, 464, discovery 480a) distinguish recognition and recall in technical sense —­

     #550.  Indication —­ N. indication; symbolism, symbolization;
semiology, semiotics, semeiology[obs3], semeiotics[obs3]; Zeitgeist.
     [means of recognition:  property] characteristic, diagnostic;
lineament, feature, trait; fingerprint, voiceprint, footprint, noseprint [for animals]; cloven hoof; footfall; recognition (memory) 505.
     [means of recognition:  tool] diagnostic, divining rod; detector.
     sign, symbol; index, indice|, indicator; point, pointer; exponent,
note, token, symptom; dollar sign, dollar mark.
     type, figure, emblem, cipher, device; representation &c. 554;
epigraph, motto, posy.
     gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug,
beck; touch, nudge; dactylology[obs3], dactylonomy[obs3]; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology[Med], byplay, dumb show; cue; hint &c. 527; clue, clew, key, scent.
     signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower;
telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset[obs3], fiery cross; calumet; heliograph; guidon; headlight.
     [sign (evidence) on physobj of contact with another physobj] mark,
scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick.
     print; imprint, impress, impression.
     [symbols accompanying written text to signify modified interpretation]
keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter[for emphasis], italics, sublineation[obs3], underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets[obs3], hachure[Topography]; quotation marks, double quotes,"”, parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis[list], “(”; right parenthesis, “)”; opening bracket, “[”; closing bracket, “]”; left curly brace, “{”; right curly brace, “}”; left arrow, “”; right arrow, “”; forward slash, “”; backward slash, “\”; exclamation point, “!”; commercial at, “@”; pound sign, “#”; percent sign, “%”; carat, “^”; ampersand, “&”; asterisk, “*”; hyphen, “-”; dash, “-”, “_”; em dash, “—­“; plus sign, “+”, equals sign, “=”; question mark, “?”; period, “.”; semicolon, “;”, colon, “:”; comma, “,”; apostrophe, “’”; single quote, “’”; tilde, “~”.
     [For identification:  general] badge, criterion; countercheck[obs3],
countermark[obs3], countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib[obs3]; totem; tessera[obs3], card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher[Fr]; trade mark, Hall mark.
     [For identification

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