Imply or infer?
We imply something by what we say. We infer something from what somebody else says. The main difference between these two words is that a speaker can imply, but a listener can only infer. …

Examples of implying

implying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It yields a transformation to new dependent variables implying a reduction of the number of equations.
This marginalisation as 'women in rock' is a way of keeping women as outsiders and of implying there are many artists belonging to this genre.
But these factors are relatively stable, implying that democracy exhibits inertia.
Some people see qualities as objective 'properties', implying these are evenly valid for everyone.
By claiming that they are "obligated" to act in certain ways, officials are implying that they are not merely "obliged" to do so.
They concluded that voicing was less salient than coronality in children's phonological systems, implying less sensitivity to the former than the latter.
Previous examinations of youthful consumption have not satisfactorily explained the reasons for this, implying that it was one effect of a rising standard of living.
We now give a simple syntactical condition implying cube-embeddability.
This is valid also for variations among the basaltic members, implying either a heterogeneous mantle source or varying components of crustal contamination.
The bubbles are observed to have formed in distinct layers implying that bubble movement after nucleation was prevented.
Examples of lapses in the monitoring of reasoning include statements implying that the lost person is simultaneously dead and alive in the physical sense.
The left arm now makes a 45 angle with the horizontal, thus implying that eigenvalues in this region have symmetric real and imaginary parts.
These distinctions are tied up with notions of media awareness and sophistication, implying that identifying with music reveals a level of ignorance or naivety.
Rulers use an official language that implicitly insults people by implying that their speech is inadequate for political discussion.
At 21 days, 60% of penetrants were detected, implying that 50 % had still to be eliminated.
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