imply
/ɪmˈplaɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.83 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A logic gate that implements material implication.
Example Sentences
- "Correlation does not imply causation"
- "The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal."
- "Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares."
- "When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown."
- "What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?"
- "The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: implien, emplier, implico
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪmˈplaɪ/
- British English: /ɪmˈplaɪ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
implies (present, singular)
implying (participle, present)
implied (participle, past)
implied (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
implied (first person, past)
impliest (archaic, present)
implied (past, second person)
impliedst (archaic, past)
implieth (archaic, present)
implied (past, singular)