imply
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Etymology
From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implico, from in ("in") + plicare.
Pronunciation Verbimply (implies, present participle implying; simple past and past participle implied)
- (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
- Correlation does not imply causation
- The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.
- (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference
- When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown.
- (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
- What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
- (archaic) to enfold, entangle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.
Conjugation of imply
- (to have as a necessary consequence) entail
- (to suggest tacitly) allude, hint, insinuate, suggest, (proscribed) infer
- French: impliquer
- German: implizieren, zur Folge haben
- Italian: implicare
- Portuguese: implicar, ter como consequência, acarretar
- Russian: предполага́ть
- Spanish: implicar, acarrear, conllevar
- French: impliquer
- German: implizieren
- Russian: подразумева́ть
- Spanish: implicar
- French: insinuer, sous-entendre
- German: bedeuten, implizieren
- Portuguese: dar a entender, insinuar
- Russian: намека́ть
- Spanish: insinuar, dar a entender
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