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imply::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | entail, mean |
| Type of | necessitate |
| Derivation | implication, implicative |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | incriminate, inculpate |
| Type of | evoke, suggest, paint a picture |
| Derivation | implication |
Examples of imply
imply
It doesn't make anything better, but it does imply a certain amount of humility.
From the sfgate.com
So, what does our analysis imply about the effects of additional stimulus today?
From the voxeu.org
I don't mean to imply that breaks were the only reason Phoenix was in this game.
From the freep.com
I did not mean to imply other species could not evolve to do this in the future.
From the newscientist.com
Your article seems to imply that she sent hers out first which was not the case.
From the ocregister.com
None of this is to imply, however, that e-mail is on its way to floppy disk-dom.
From the businessweek.com
When we fail to leave a tip, we imply that we are less than happy with our meal.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Yet you imply that some humans can, and should, be shuffled off from this world.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
It would imply that all these public figures who do deny their pasts are female.
From the independent.co.uk
- Express or state indirectly
- Suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
- Entail: have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
- Incriminate: suggest that someone is guilty
- Have as a necessary feature; "This decision involves many changes"
- (implication) deduction: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
- (Implication (logical)) In logic, entailment (or logical implication) is a relation between sets of sentences and a sentence. ...
- (Implication (pragmatics)) Implicature is a technical term in the pragmatics subfield of linguistics, coined by H. P. Grice, which refers to what is suggested in an utterance, even though not expressed nor strictly implied (that is, entailed) by the utterance. ...
- (implication) The act of implicating; The state of being implicated; An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words; (countable) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two ...
