Meaning of IMPLY
| Pronunciation: | | im'plI
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- [v] express or state indirectly
- [v] suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
- [v] have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
- [v] have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail; "This decision involves many changes"
- [v] suggest that someone is guilty
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| | Synonyms: | | connote, entail, incriminate, inculpate, involve, mean |
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| | See Also: | | ask, call for, carry, demand, evince, evoke, express, intimate, necessitate, need, paint a picture, postulate, predicate, presuppose, require, show, suggest, suggest, take | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Implied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Implying}.] [From the same source as employ. See {Employ},
{Ply}, and cf. {Implicate}, {Apply}.]
1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] ``His head in
curls implied.'' --Chapman.
2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference,
or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as,
war implies fighting.
Where a mulicious act is proved, a mulicious
intention is implied. --Bp.
Sherlock.
When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . .
the act of hiring implies an obligation and a
promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward
for his services. --Blackstone.
3. To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.]
Whence might this distaste arise?
If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will. To
which I most imply it. --J. Webster.
Syn: To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote;
signify; betoken. See {Involve}.
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