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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishimplien,emplien, borrowed fromOld Frenchemplier, fromLatinimplicare(to infold, involve), fromin(in) +plicare(to fold).Doublet ofemploy andimplicate.

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Verb

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imply (third-person singular simple presentimplies,present participleimplying,simple past and past participleimplied)

  1. (transitive, of a proposition) To have as anecessaryconsequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
    Synonyms:entail,implicate,import
    Correlation does notimply causation
    The proposition that "all dogs are mammals"implies that my dog is a mammal.
    • 2016, Grigoriy Blekherman, Daniel Plaumann, Rainer Sinn, Cynthia Vinzant, “Low-Rank Sum-of-Squares Representations on Varieties of Minimal Degree”, inarXiv[1]:
      Our upper bound is the best possible, and itimplies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares.
  2. (transitive, of a person) Tosuggest bylogicalinference.
    When I state that your dog is brown, I am notimplying that all dogs are brown.
  3. (transitive, of a person or proposition) Tohint; toinsinuate; tosuggesttacitly and avoid adirectstatement.
    Synonyms:allude,hint,infer(proscribed),insinuate,suggest;see alsoThesaurus:allude
    What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are youimplying that I don'twash my hands?
    • 2013, Margaret Helen Hobbs, Carla Rice,Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain,→ISBN, page13:
      The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement whichimplied 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.
    • 2019, Margaret Laurence,The Diviners:
      Naturally, the river wasn't wrinkled or creased at all— wrong words,implying something unfluid like skin, something unenduring, prey to age.
    • 2022,R. F. Kuang,Babel, HarperVoyager, page470:
      Both French and English had once usedparcel to refer to pieces of land that made up an estate, but when it evolved toimply an item of business in both, it retained its connotations of small fragmentariness in French, whereas in English it simply meant a package.
  4. (archaic) Toenfold,entangle.
    Synonyms:envelop,wrap up;ensnare,implicate;see alsoThesaurus:tangle

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Conjugation

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Conjugation ofimply
infinitive(to)imply
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularimplyimplied
2nd-personsingularimply,impliestimplied,impliedst
3rd-personsingularimplies,impliethimplied
pluralimply
subjunctiveimplyimplied
imperativeimply
participlesimplyingimplied

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Translations

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to have as a consequence
to suggest by a logical inference
to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement

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