Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word IMPLY

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Definitions of IMPLY

1. (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
2. (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference
3. (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
4. (archaic) to enfold, entangle.

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Examples of Using IMPLY in a Sentence

• Although a chemical formula may imply certain simple chemical structures, it is not the same as a full chemical structural formula.
• An ellipsis can be used in many ways, such as for intentional omission of text or numbers, to imply a concept without using words.
• The term presently does not imply any specific relationship or classification of the organisms that possess flagella.
• Representing the state of a robot with traditional first-order logic requires the use of many axioms that simply imply that things in the environment do not change arbitrarily.
• Particles whose speed exceeds that of light (tachyons) have been hypothesized, but their existence would violate causality and would imply time travel.
• The principle applies to all logical argumentation: soundness implies validity, but validity does not imply soundness.
• The terms programmer and coder overlap software engineer, but they imply only the construction aspect of typical software engineer workload.
• The choice of the word is often motivated by an intention to imply that the garments are alluring, fashionable, or both.
• It differs from the term Squib, which refers to a person with one or more magical parents yet without any magical power or ability, and from the term Muggle-born (or the derogatory and offensive term mudblood, which is used to imply the supposed impurity of Muggle blood), which refers to a person with magical abilities but with non-magical parents.
• For a polynomial to be Hurwitz, it is necessary but not sufficient that all of its coefficients be positive (except for quadratic polynomials, which also imply sufficiency).
• In its earliest form (defined by Aristotle in his 350 BC book Prior Analytics), a deductive syllogism arises when two true premises (propositions or statements) validly imply a conclusion, or the main point that the argument aims to get across.
• There are many situations where another condition of topological spaces (such as normality, pseudonormality, paracompactness, or local compactness) will imply regularity if some weaker separation axiom, such as preregularity, is satisfied.
• While generally used as a positive or neutral term, Realpolitik has been also used pejoratively to imply political policies that are perceived as being coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian.
• The traditional Christian Orthodox identification of Mount Sinai as Jabal Musa (one of the peaks at the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula) would imply that the wilderness of Sin was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the promontory of Ras Mohammed; however, some scholars have since rejected these traditional identifications.
• He may be identical to the Jewish High Priest, as his predecessor Bukki also may have been, although the patronyms imply different fathers which might be a product of an adoption or levirate marriage or being two different individuals.
• The theorem was originally misunderstood (notably by Joule) to imply that a system consisting of an electric motor driven by a battery could not be more than 50% efficient, since the power dissipated as heat in the battery would always be equal to the power delivered to the motor when the impedances were matched.
• It does not imply that evolution has conscious motives or method but that people who say "evolution can't do this" or "evolution can't do that" are simply lacking in imagination.
• It can be shown (in an asymptotic sense) that almost all cyclic permutations admit at least one stretching pair, and hence almost all orbit types imply period-3.
• Arnold and THF argued that although incorporated cities are not explicitly granted the use of eminent domain does not imply they are denied it.
• Board on Geographic Names eschews the use of apostrophes in geographic names, which may improperly imply personal possession.
• The arms' design was settled by the following year and the committee conferred with the College of Arms in London, only to face resistance to the use of the UK's royal arms from the Garter King of Arms, as well as concern over whether the inclusion of the fleurs-de-lis would imply Canada claimed sovereignty over France.
• The Sea King was initially designated HSS-2, which was intended to imply a level of commonality to the earlier HSS-1; it was subsequently redesignated as the SH-3A during the early 1960s.
• For example, in discussing oranges, the paucal number might imply fewer than ten, whereas for the population of a country, it might be used for a few hundred thousand.
• Archaeological records suggest that Aspalathus linearis could have been used thousands of years ago, but that does not imply rooibos tea was made in precolonial times.
• Stalagmite deposits inside the rising, dated to at least 27 ka, imply that the cave was dry during the Devensian ice age, and so must have been formed before then.

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