/ɪmˈplaɪ/
OriginFrom Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate.
- transitiveTo have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
“Correlation does not imply causation”
“The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.”
“Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few square”
- transitiveTo suggest by logical inference.
“When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown.”
- transitiveTo hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement.
“What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?”
“The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and”
“Naturally, the river wasn't wrinkled or creased at all— wrong words, implying something unfluid like skin, something unenduring, prey to age.”
- archaicTo enfold, entangle.
“And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.”
- A logic gate that implements material implication.
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