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infer Verb

— If you infer something, you begin to believe it based on indirect information. We can infer from the old bones that this animal probably walked on two feet. From the evidence, we can infer the existence of a third child.

infer

— verb (= deduce) reason by deduction; establish by deduction — verb (= generalize) draw from specific cases for more general cases — verb (= guess) guess correctly; solve by guessing He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize — verb (= understand) believe to be the case I understand you have no previous experience? — verb (= deduce) conclude by reasoning; in logic

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deduce conclude guess gather conjecture induce derive suppose reason deduct surmise abstract understand presume judge imply find extrapolate draw believe think support predict inference generalize generalise construe compute calculate assume trust transmit take sympathize sympathise swallow suspect suggest speculate spearhead sense rule result relate regard reflect reckon pick up pick opine

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My heart aches for Patsy. and what you infer, you're being very unjust.
There tomorrow, at your meetest vantage of the time. infer the bastardy of Edward's children.
Do you infer then the gods dispense nonsense?
You infer I'm the murderer of Lord Lebanon from that?
To imply is to indicate without saying openly or directly, to infer is to conclude from something known or assumed.
They seem to infer some lack of appreciation on your part.
But, Dr Dixon, are we to infer that Zira is her name, or some phrase in her own language?
Infer what you will, Mr Chairman.
And according to the NASA experts, who are still subjecting the spaceship to microscopic scrutiny, the precise year of what you merely infer to be Earth's destruction is recorded on the flight synthesizer as 3955.
Intended to infer?
I don't mean to infer that we can take on more enemies than we now have, but perhaps we are already fighting a common foe.
Am I to infer that you will not support me?
This Doctor cannot have brought mathematics further than I. Infer again.
Then, pray, tell me what it is that you can infer from that hat?
Are you trying to infer that my husband alone was the cause of this?
From the circumstances I've mentioned, my sovereign is forced to infer. that Capt. Thorpe had the approval of Your Majesty. in an overt act of war upon the empire of Spain.
Then let Phillip infer what he pleases.
How could you possibly infer that?
I infer a husband.
Are we to infer from that, sir, that you do not intend informing our government?
I might infer that you are one yourself.
Infer whatever you want.
You mean to infer that.
I can infer anything I want now, Chief.
And it is not too long a shot to infer that my brother is the cause of your distress.
I had warned you, but don't infer from.
A jury could infer that the defendant sent her daughter to Angel specifically to get drugs.
Am I to infer, sir, that you might be offering yourself for election?
Just what are you trying to infer, child?
Infer the bastardy of Edward's children.
We can infer the killer's been careful in disposing of the remains. selecting victims whose disappearance wouldn't draw unusual attention.
And what can we infer from your charming Irish lilt?
We infer nothing about the lifestyle of the parents, who are unmarried.
We can infer he is relatively young and a capable commander.
Are we to infer congenital stupidity?
What are you trying to infer, Carol?
And from these circumstances you infer...some negligence?
Infer the shape through the shading.

News and current affairs

By inductive reasoning, if we know the cause and effects, we can infer the principles.
This leaves us trying to use patterns from past, dissimilar crises to try to infer the likely prognosis for the current crisis.
It is impossible to infer solely from an increase in the volume of transactions how the price of oil will change.
If so, new, the new antidepressants would have to target what appear to be progressive neurodegenerative changes in the brain, which we infer are taking place because recurrence of depression is so high under currently available treatments.
One may infer that such informal arrangements survive in real-world employment relationships because they reinforce our heartfelt feelings of good will toward each other.
Would it not be a great improvement if, when looking at a particular place, we could have in mind all of the world's previous experiences and automatically identify the most relevant ones, in order to infer what to do next?
Thus, one might infer that we face another seven years or so of bad times.
There is also the selection bias that we infer from looking at the twentieth century, the most successful in terms of economic growth in human history.
We are meant to infer that, on top of all his talents, Annan shares the ideals embodied during the last days of WWII by the foremost Swede of modern times.
Thus, evolutionary psychologists infer what makes us who we are from the remains of our Stone Age ancestors (including their DNA), whereas humanists focus on artifacts of a more recent and literate age.
Evidently, investors were supposed to infer that for all practical purposes they should think of Spanish and German debt as identical - the old hubris of the eurozone.
Nor could you infer it from the behavior of voters, who seem poised to re-elect President Cristina Kirchner in October.
But if you infer from this that people spend a lot of time planning the lifetime accumulation of their own wealth, you would be wrong.
In the case of Darfur, it would seem more reasonable to infer from the evidence the intent to commit crimes against humanity (extermination, etc.), rather than the intent to annihilate ethnic groups in whole or in part.
From their slow motion, we infer that they have mass.
Of course, no one should infer from the Libyan case that other SWFs across the board are riddled with corruption and conflicts of interest.
But that does not make it wrong for a seasoned investigator like Goldstone, reviewing the evidence that he collected, to infer intentionality from the pattern and quantity of abuses.
Again, there are limits to comparisons: it is especially hard to infer from past episodes the limits to public debt.
But the past is not necessarily prologue: given the remarkable flexibility of market forces, it would be foolish, if not dangerous, to infer rising inequality in relative incomes in the coming decades by extrapolating from recent trends.
The fact that we can often infer the behavior of complex objects or systems from knowledge of their parts - that we get back more than we put in - can help us to hone our predictions further.

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