imply
11imply — 01. Were you [implying] that I stole some equipment when you mentioned that things always went missing when I was in the office? 02. When you said you didn t believe me, were you [implying] that I was lying? 03. Are you [implying] that I was… …
12imply — im|ply W2 [ımˈplaı] v past tense and past participle implied present participle implying third person singular implies [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: emplier, from Latin implicare; IMPLICATE] 1.) to suggest that something is true,… …
13imply — im|ply [ ım plaı ] verb transitive *** 1. ) if one thing implies another thing, the other thing is likely to exist or be true: The presence of stairs in the ruins implies an upper floor. imply (that): The increase in the inflation level implies… …
14imply — See imply, infer See imply, insinuate …
15imply — transitive verb (implied; implying) Etymology: Middle English emplien, from Anglo French emplier to entangle more at employ Date: 14th century 1. obsolete enfold, entwine 2. to involve or indicate by inference, association, or necessary… …
16imply — see EMPLOY * * * To imply something is to indicate it without spelling it out, in other words to involve it in something larger. The literal sense is enfold, from Latin implicare, which also gave English implicate …
17imply — , infer Imply means to suggest: He implied that I was a fool. Infer means to deduce: After three hours of waiting, we inferred that they weren’t coming …
18imply — [[t]ɪmpla͟ɪ[/t]] ♦♦♦ implies, implying, implied 1) VERB If you imply that something is the case, you say something which indicates that it is the case in an indirect way. [V that] Are you implying that I have something to do with those attacks?… …
19imply — verb (implies, implying, implied) indicate by suggestion rather than explicit reference. ↘(of a fact or occurrence) suggest as a logical consequence. Derivatives implied adjective impliedly adverb Origin ME (orig. in the sense entangle ): from… …
20imply*/ — [ɪmˈplaɪ] verb [T] to show or suggest that something exists or is true I didn t mean to imply that you were interfering.[/ex] …
