Confused words. 2014.
imply / infer — Imply means to suggest indirectly : Her hesitation implied that her answer was no. Infer means to draw a conclusion from known facts : He inferred that the answer was no from her hesitation. See implicate / imply … Confused words
imply / infer — Imply means to suggest indirectly : Her hesitation implied that her answer was no. Infer means to draw a conclusion from known facts : He inferred that the answer was no from her hesitation. See implicate / imply … Confused words
imply — (v.) late 14c., to enfold, enwrap, entangle (the classical Latin sense), from O.Fr. emplier, from L. implicare involve (see IMPLICATE (Cf. implicate)). Meaning to involve something unstated as a logical consequence first recorded c.1400; that of… … Etymology dictionary
implicate — ► VERB 1) show to be involved in a crime. 2) (be implicated in) bear some of the responsibility for. 3) convey (a meaning or intention) indirectly; imply. DERIVATIVES implicative adjective. ORIGIN Latin implicare fold in, involve, imply … English terms dictionary
implicate — [im′pli kāt΄] vt. implicated, implicating [< L implicatus, pp. of implicare, to enfold, involve: see IMPLY] 1. a) to show to have a connection with a crime, fault, etc.; involve b) to show to be involved or concerned 2. Rare to imply … English World dictionary
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. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Implicate — Im pli*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Implicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Implicating}.] [L. implicatus, p. p. of implicare to involve; pref. im in + plicare to fold. See {Employ}, {Ply}, and cf. {Imply}, {Implicit}.] 1. To infold; to fold together; to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
implicate — [v] imply, involve accuse, affect, associate, blame, charge, cite, compromise, concern, connect, embroil, entangle, frame, hint, impute, include, incriminate, inculpate, insinuate, lay at one’s door*, link, mean, mire, name, pin on*, point finger … New thesaurus
Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm — David Bohm proposed a cosmological order radically different from generally accepted conventions, which he expressed as a distinction between the implicate and explicate order, described in the book Wholeness and the Implicate Order ::In the… … Wikipedia
implicate — verb (T) 1 to show or seem to show that someone is involved in something wrong or criminal: implicate sb in sth: The letter seemed to implicate Mitchell in the robbery. 2 to show or seem to show that something is the cause of something bad or… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
