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# imply

«imply» in Mova's school dictionary: **To suggest something without saying it directly: Are you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (imply, implies, implied, implying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To suggest something without saying it directly: Are you implying I'm lazy? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#m1)

2) (logic, maths) For one thing to mean that another must be true: being a square implies having four sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In reading lessons (inference: what the writer implies, the reader infers); in maths and logic, if-then statements. Phrases: imply that, what are you implying, is implied by.

### examples

- Are you implying that I took your pen? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#x1)
- His smile implied he knew the secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#x2)
- The writer implies the house is haunted without saying it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#x3)
- Being a square implies having four equal sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#x4)
- Her silence implied she was upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#x5)
- A dark sky often implies rain is coming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#x6)
- But this is the usual attitude of the folk towards the "Good People," as indeed their euphemistic name really implies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/#x7)

### note

Past: implied; he implies. Noun: implication. Common confusion: the speaker implies, the listener infers. In logic, A implies B does not mean B implies A.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «imply» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imply/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.