imply

[Im*ply·]

Imply means to express, suggest, or show something without stating it directly: A friend’s gruff manner would imply that she’s in a foul mood.

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To infold or involve; to wrap up.

Verb
express or state indirectly

Verb
suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic

Verb
have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"

Verb
have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail; "This decision involves many changes"

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suggest that someone is guilty

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v. t.
To infold or involve; to wrap up.

v. t.
To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting.

v. t.
To refer, ascribe, or attribute.

Imply

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.

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.

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.
Syn. -- To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote; signify; betoken. See Involve.
To infold or involve; to wrap up.

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Usage Examples

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

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Other Usage Examples

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.