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How to pronounce impute in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ascribe, assign, attribute
Type of pass judgment, judge, evaluate
Has types sensualize, anthropomorphise, anthropomorphize, interiorise, interiorize, internalise, internalize, personate, personify, project, reattribute, accredit, blame, carnalize, charge, credit, externalise, externalize
Derivation imputation


People impute great cleverness to cats.
Type Words
Type of attribute, assign, ascribe
Verb group assign, ascribe, attribute
Derivation imputation


The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.

Examples of impute

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So we impute to Lincoln the qualities we hope will lead us through the wilderness.
From the washingtonpost.com
This means you only have to impute your data once, saving you valuable time.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Imputation for the BPC3 study used MACH 1.0. The CAPS study used IMPUTE v1.
From the nature.com
None are known as incubators for the pitiless ideology that Democrats impute to Mr. Ryan.
From the online.wsj.com
But there is a danger that the inquiry will impute too much from these extreme examples.
From the independent.co.uk
The reader would impute what I was trying to get at and then jump back to the main story.
From the nzherald.co.nz
See how easy it is to impute dishonorable motives, if you have a prejudice against someone?
From the guardian.co.uk
But since it is unfair to impute motives like that, it would be unwise and unfair to do so.
From the forbes.com
If the intention is unclear the court can impute their intention by looking at all the facts.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
More examples
  • Attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
  • Attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
  • (imputation) a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense); "he denied the imputation"
  • (imputation) the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously"
  • (Imputation (economics)) In economics, the theory of imputation, first expounded by Carl Menger, maintains that factor prices are determined by output prices.
  • (Imputation (game theory)) In fully cooperative games players act efficiently when they form a single coalition, the grand coalition. The focus of the game is to find acceptable distributions of the payoff of the grand coalition. ...
  • In law, the principle of imputation or attribution underpins the concept that ignorantia juris non excusatu2014ignorance of the law does not excuse. All laws are published and available for study in all developed states. The content of the law is imputed to all persons who are within the jurisdiction, no matter how transiently.
  • Imputed righteousness is a concept in Christian theology that proposes that the "righteousness of Christ ... is imputed to u2014 that is, treated as if it were theirs through faith." :106 It is on the basis of this "alien" (i.e. from the outside) righteousness that God accepts humans. This acceptance is also referred to as justification...
  • (Imputation (statistics)) In statistics, imputation is the substitution of some value for a missing data point or a missing component of a data point. Once all missing values have been imputed, the dataset can then be analysed using standard techniques for complete data. ...