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. …

infer | American Dictionary

infer
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈfɜr/-rr-
to reach an opinion from available information or facts:
[ + that clause ]He inferred that she was not interested in a relationship from what she said in her letter.

Examples of infer

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The highlighted elements in each of the (b) representations are not derived by linguistic decoding but are pragmatically inferred.
The closure of the blocked channels can be inferred because the blocker remains stably trapped in the closed channel.
Narrative form integrates situations and context, and less salient cues, to infer whether an emotion indicates suffering or something else.
The practice of inferring the activity of either autonomic branch from heart rate alone is outdated and unlikely to be fruitful in the future.
From the other 131 the status can only be inferred with varying degrees of plausibility.
Or did they infer that the researcher wanted them to consider it - or else, why would it be presented to them in the first place?
To do so, however, required a sophisticated, post-access, recognition process that could infer a target letter from a word representation.
The underlying contact patterns which give rise to the different rates of infection by age cannot be directly inferred from epidemiological data.
It may be infer red from this resistance to left-branching that the two branching directions differ in strength.
Thus, lower organisms are treated as inferring the internal states of other organisms from overt signals and then responding.
The study also found a positive effect on ability to infer meaning from context, although the findings did not reach statistical significance.
However, this dependency enables the machine to infer the argument of no, given a desired return type.
These developmental needs and motives can be seen or inferred by looking at problem behavior as having a dual aspect.
It could just as easily use abstract interpretation to infer the information from a less complete set of annotations.
The system assists users in making statements, abducing reasons, inferring conclusions and providing exceptions.
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