noun
- What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
- synonyms: intension
- An idea that is implied or suggested. .
Connotation and Content
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something.
- usage: "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content"
- What a communication that is about something is about.
- synonyms: message, subject matter, substance
- The proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc..
- The amount that can be contained.
- usage: "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons"
- synonyms: capacity
- The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned.
- synonyms: cognitive content, mental object
- The state of being contented with your situation in life.
- usage: "he relaxed in sleepy contentedness"; "they could read to their heart's content"
- synonyms: contentedness
- Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation.
- usage: "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"
- synonyms: subject, depicted object
verb
- Satisfy in a limited way.
- usage: "He contented himself with one glass of beer per day"
- Make content.
- usage: "I am contented"
adjective
- Satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are.
- usage: "a contented smile"
- synonyms: contented
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "Content.".
- (a.) To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.
- (n.) That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.
- (a.) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
- (n.) Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.
- (n.) Power of containing; capacity; extent; size.
- (a.) Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.
- (n.) Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.
- (n.) That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (n.) Acquiescence without examination.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary