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Imply   /ɪmplˈaɪ/   Listen
Imply

verb
(past & past part. implied; pres. part. implying)
1.
Express or state indirectly.  Synonym: connote.
2.
Suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic.
3.
Have as a logical consequence.  Synonyms: entail, mean.
4.
Suggest that someone is guilty.  Synonyms: incriminate, inculpate.
5.
Have as a necessary feature.  Synonym: involve.





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"Imply" Quotes from Famous Books



... comfortably among the red silk cushions and was ready for our talk. The simplicity of manner was reflected in her words. She did not imply—there is only one right way, and I have found it. "These things seem best for my voice, and this is the way I work. But, since each voice is different, they might not fit any one else. I have no desire to lay down rules for others; I can only ...
— Vocal Mastery - Talks with Master Singers and Teachers • Harriette Brower
... Why could not Mr. Kingsley be open? If he intended still to arraign me on the charge of lying, why could he not say so as a man? Why must he insinuate, question, imply, and use sneering and irony, as if longing to touch a forbidden fruit, which still he was afraid would burn his fingers, if he did so? Why must he "palter in a double sense," and blow hot and cold in one breath? He first said he considered me a ...
— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman
... all, there is nothing so subtle as simplicity, and, after all, the Commandant managed to imply that ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... singers, actors, and players who are his executants. One might as well expect Napoleon to be a fencer, or the Astronomer Royal to know how many beans make five any better than his bookkeeper. Even exceptional command of language does not imply the possession of ideas to express; Mezzofanti, the master of fifty-eight languages, had less to say in them than Shakespear with his little Latin and less Greek; and public life is the ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw
... up at him with momentary alarm and dismay. She did not know what the question meant, but a certain vague terror seized her. It seemed to imply somehow that she was now to be left to her own resources. She gave a certain gasp of appeal to "Nettie!" and took refuge once more in her handkerchief. The doctor was desperate—he had no ...
— The Doctor's Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant


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