Imply
verb
To suggest or show something without stating it directly.
His silence might imply agreement.
Often appears as...
- imply agreement
- imply meaning
verb
To involve or include as a necessary condition or result.
Building a new house implies a big investment.
Often appears as...
- imply investment
- imply result
verb
To make someone understand something by suggesting it rather than by saying it directly.
Are you implying that I'm not capable?
Often appears as...
- imply capability
- imply understanding
verb
To suggest or show something without stating it directly.
His silence might imply agreement.
Often appears as...
- imply agreement
- imply meaning
verb
To involve or include as a necessary condition or result.
Building a new house implies a big investment.
Often appears as...
- imply investment
- imply result
verb
To make someone understand something by suggesting it rather than by saying it directly.
Are you implying that I'm not capable?
Often appears as...
- imply capability
- imply understanding
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Hinting
Use 'imply' to subtly hint at something without openly saying it.
He implied that they were more than just friends.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Stated
'Imply' is used when the speaker does not want to state something explicitly.
She implied her displeasure with a frown.
Pro Tip 3/3Listener's Interpretation
'Imply' requires the listener to interpret the meaning beyond the words spoken.
His choice of words implied a hidden agenda.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Hinting
Use 'imply' to subtly hint at something without openly saying it.
He implied that they were more than just friends.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Stated
'Imply' is used when the speaker does not want to state something explicitly.
She implied her displeasure with a frown.
Pro Tip 3/3Listener's Interpretation
'Imply' requires the listener to interpret the meaning beyond the words spoken.
His choice of words implied a hidden agenda.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Hinting
Use 'imply' to subtly hint at something without openly saying it.
He implied that they were more than just friends.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Stated
'Imply' is used when the speaker does not want to state something explicitly.
She implied her displeasure with a frown.
Pro Tip 3/3Listener's Interpretation
'Imply' requires the listener to interpret the meaning beyond the words spoken.
His choice of words implied a hidden agenda.
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The Boltzmann brain...
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A powerful way to...
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How civilization could...
or something like that you could have created a nuclear detonation. So we know that that's physically impossible. But before you did the relevant physics how could you have known how it would turn out? Although, couldn't you argue that for life to evolve on Earth that implied sort of stable environment,
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Why should you read...
Today, the adjective Dickensian often implies squalid working or living conditions. But to describe a novel as Dickensian is typically high praise, as it suggests a story in which true adventure and discovery occur in the most unexpected places. Although he often explored bleak material,
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What is the universe...
to the formation of clumps of gas that eventually led to galaxies. If we accept this paradigm, it may also imply our universe represents one region in a greater cosmic reality that undergoes endless, eternal inflation. We know nothing of this speculative inflating reality,
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Why don't perpetual...
have stymied every idea for perpetual motion and the dreams of perfectly efficient energy generation they imply. Yet it's hard to conclusively say we'll never discover a perpetual motion machine because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe.
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Exploring Pluto's...
that, of course, just couldn't occur on the earth. And so on Pluto, we see these, we see these big ice structures. So it all kind of implies that there's lots on Pluto that is quite fresh and new. And so whether you could have life that is in a sort of this
Video examples
The Boltzmann brain...
Some argue that leading models for where the universe came from still imply that Boltzmann brains are more likely than human brains, suggesting something’s amiss. Others counter that slight modifications of the cosmological models would avoid the problem,
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Buffalo buffalo buffalo:...
These different interpretations create a sequence of words that is grammatically correct as it stands, though it helps to add in a few implied phrases and punctuation marks to reveal what's really going on.
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A powerful way to...
and then, while he's doing that, he moves back to general relativity, and he's refreshed. He sees what the theory implies -- that the universe isn't static. It's expanding. It's an idea so staggering,
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The ecological knowledge...
marginal high that means water is life implying it's reasonable usage another source of ecological knowledge is indigenous plant names and this point I'd like to illustrate with some
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Watch: What It’s Like to...
read I on the pitch well not the auditory the world deep meeting implies reading like reading above which text is
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Mark Parker
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German Composer
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Lawrence M. Krauss
American Physicist
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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John Burroughs
American Author
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Maya Beiser
American Musician
Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
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Alexander Cockburn
English Journalist
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
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William Hague
British Politician
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
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Arthur Machen
Welsh Author
For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
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John D. Rockefeller
American Businessman
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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Mark Parker
American Businessman
I don't like when I say 'honestly' - not to imply that I'm otherwise not honest.
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Lukas Foss
German Composer
Truth implies meaning.
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