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imply English

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imply Verb

— If you imply something, you mean it, but you don't say it directly. By saying I should exercise more, she implied that I'm fat. What does it imply about him if he uses bad language all the time?

imply

— verb express or state indirectly — verb suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic — verb (= mean) have as a logical consequence The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers — verb (= involve) have as a necessary feature This decision involves many changes — verb (= incriminate) suggest that someone is guilty

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mean hint insinuate indicate suggest intimate signify implicate denote connote involve entail represent purport import hint at stand for intend infer include convey allude spell show refer to point necessitate inculpate incriminate give a hint assume allude to with think of tell telegraph subscribe stigmatize stigmatise spot signal score reveal require remind register refer put down purpose prefigure

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Simple sentences

What do his words imply?
What does his silence imply?
Section 214, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who kidnaps a person from another one, must deliver the latter a receipt, to that effect.
Section 214b, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who sees a pink elephant must give it a receipt.
Correlation does not imply causation.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply anything.
A good education doesn't imply a good upbringing.

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Do you mean to imply then that. that is my brother?
Do you mean to imply there was someone else up there?
Are you trying to imply that Latour might have murdered him?
But now, don't misunderstand. I don't mean to imply that I am old.
Are you trying to imply that I was a priest at that time?
Popularity does not imply efficiency.
What did it imply?
You are trying to imply that I put pressure on Mrs. Lansdowne. to come here and perjure herself.
Or are you trying to imply Elizabeth has committed this breach of taste?
Do you mean to imply that only an officer can be a gentleman?
Do you imply that he would raise the slaves against me?
It's just that McLane didn't really mean to imply that the flesh was from a big worm.
Well, I certainly didn't mean to imply any biological relationship.
I didn't mean to imply that you were a huntress.
How dare you imply such a thing?
Is there, as the newspapers imply a certain relationship between that unfortunate happening and the death a little later of the man Thursby?
You insect. You dare to imply.
And purpose and motive are the last things a sane man would wish to imply if he were posing as a madman.
You're not trying to imply he.?
I don't mean to imply that I am old.
Are you trying to imply that I was a priest at that time? I was not.
Of course, true thought would appear to suggest genuine mentality which would, in turn, necessarily imply an artificially created machine personality.
I didn't mean to imply any biological relationship.
Do you imply that he came home from the war from combat duty, just to beat you up?
You imply that yesterday when we were on our way to Mademoiselle Suzanne, we were driving in the wrong direction?
As she starts to faint, I'll imply that she's having an abnormal reaction, okay?
When you say that Parris is not the one we should talk to, you imply there's someone else.
Do you mean to imply.
I DIDN'T MEAN TO IMPLY.
I didn't mean to imply a human intelligence.
You imply that these children may be the result of impulses. directed towards us from somewhere in the universe?
I warn you that to protect my honesty and liability, I will imply, if necessary, all appropriate measures.
Telepathy doesn't imply control and I assure you that I have full control of your friends.
I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
I certainly didn't mean to imply that at all.

News and current affairs

Obama, by contrast, would run larger deficits - his spending increase is much larger than his tax increase - which imply large tax hikes in the future.
Similarly, while competition will improve the quality of research and education, this does not imply reduced public funding, a lower priority for basic research, or the elimination of scholarships.
They find that if you control for educational attainment and skills, financial jobs were highly paid until the Great Depression of the 1930s, higher than the quality of the people who held the jobs would imply.
The outcome of any public discussion can never be known with certainty, but chances are that it will amplify stories that imply risks of higher oil prices.
But the continuing success of the floating exchange-rate system does not imply a smooth ride in 2011.
The World Bank, if properly led, can play a key role in averting these threats and the risks that they imply.
Especially in times of crisis - and a sharp fall in US imports would imply a much more severe crisis for Asian and European exporters than it would for the US - the dollar is a currency that you run to, not from.
Five years later, the US Congress is still holding up IMF quota reform - not because it would imply any loss of power or cost to US taxpayers, but because many members do not want to give Obama anything he asks for.
The problem is incentives - what bailouts imply for attitudes and behavior within the financial sector.
Many of the decisions to be taken by the new European institutions may imply costs that will emerge only much later.
But this does not imply that modern behavior must have developed in a single species.
A decline in long-term rates of such magnitude would thus appear to imply massive price inflation for real assets, justifying the high prices we are in fact seeing.
Other tropical parasitic diseases imply similarly extraordinary burdens in Africa.
A commitment to a price-level target path above the current level would imply a commitment to keep nominal interest rates low for a time in the future, even after prices begin to rise again.
Increasingly burgeoning populations in countries like Nigeria and Ghana imply a greater extraction of water resources for power generation.
For one thing, possession of power resources does not always imply that one can get the outcomes one prefers.
These schemes imply socialization of debt - taxpayers elsewhere in Europe would share a country's debt burden.
They canceled a European summit because of a meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama, and regularly imply that Tibetans are terrorists.
The Franco-British agreement does, however, imply progress toward joint European military action, both in Europe and on the international scene, which will encourage the US.
They also know, of course, that any serious engagement with the Palestinian question must imply engaging Hamas in the search for a two-state solution.
It would affect about 400 million people, force the relocation of 15 million, and imply costly protection of the rest.
Given that such a move would imply that China's claim to the islands may have some legitimacy, Abe's possible concession on this point is no trivial matter; it could even mean that he will agree with China to restore the status quo ante.
This belief does not imply South Korean cynicism about nonproliferation.
A confrontational US approach toward China, moreover, would imply an additional destabilizing factor: Japan might become much bolder than necessary in its foreign policy.

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