Definizione monolingua

imply

imply (third-person singular simple present implies, present participle implying, simple past and past participle implied)

1. (obsolete) to enfold, entangle.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iv:

     And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.

2. (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence

   The proposition that ""all dogs are mammals"" implies that my dog is a mammal

3. (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference

   When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown

4. (transitive, of a person or proposition) to express in a suggestive manner rather than as a direct statement; to state tacitly

   What do you mean ""we need to be more careful with hygiene""? Are you implying that I dont wash my hands?

Definizione dizionario imply

	implicare
	to have as a consequence

significare

	comportare
	To have as a logical consequence.

alludere

insinuare

racchiudere

sottintendere

Altri significati:

(transitive, of a person or proposition) to express in a suggestive manner rather than as a direct statement; to state tacitly

(transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence

(transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference

to suggest by a logical inference

(obsolete) to enfold, entangle.

to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement