Job titles are thus denotive of seniority not function.

Linguistic signs may be classified as denotive (or referential) or connotive (or expressive) according to whether their meaning is intellectual or emotive.

But nothing else in their anatomy was denotive of the reptile, or, indeed, of any terrene mammalian form Their long, curving arms and round bodies with neckless, globular heads offered a vague hint of enormous tarantulas.

But, in an unspecifiable was, the character of their features was not that of any race that has seen the sun for a million years; and the low, liquid, many-vowelled words which they spoke to each other were not denotive of any recorded language.

Increased levels of SLPI in nasal secretions and bronchoalveolar fluids may be denotive of inflammatory lung conditions or allergic reactions, and increased levels of SLPI in plasma may be indicative of pneumonia.