Apothecaries' profit is become a bye-word, denoting something uncommonly extravagant. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Master and man are at length disturbed by footsteps in the passage, where they make an unusual sound, denoting the arrival of unusual company. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Popular terms denoting knowledge have always retained the connection with ability in action lost by academic philosophies. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
They seem to have been called customs, as denoting customary payments, which had been in use for time immemorial. 亚当·斯密.国富论.