imply
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate.
Inflected forms:
form: implies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: implying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: implied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: implied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: imply
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: imply
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: implied
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: imply
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: impliest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: implied
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: impliedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: implies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: implieth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: implied
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: imply
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: implied
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: imply
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: implied
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: imply
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: implying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: implied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Correlation does not imply causation
The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.
Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares.
gloss: To suggest by logical inference.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown.
gloss: To hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent.
Naturally, the river wasn't wrinkled or creased at all— wrong words, implying something unfluid like skin, something unenduring, prey to age.
Both French and English had once used parcel to refer to pieces of land that made up an estate, but when it evolved to imply an item of business in both, it retained its connotations of small fragmentariness in French, whereas in English it simply meant a package.
gloss: To enfold, entangle.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.
Related words: implicate
implication
implicative
implicit
implicitness
connotation
entail
Derived words: impliable
implier
misimply
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