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# impute

«impute» in Mova's school dictionary: **caused by or belongs to someone: to impute blame** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (impute, imputes, imputed, imputing; formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To say that something, usually bad, is caused by or belongs to someone: to impute blame. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impute/#m1)

2) (maths and statistics) To fill in a missing value in data with an estimated one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impute/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A stiff exam and legal word: «they imputed the failure to poor planning». In data and statistics, imputing means guessing a missing number from the others, for example using the average. Phrases: impute blame, impute motives, impute missing values.

### examples

- It is unfair to impute bad motives to someone without proof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impute/#x1)
- The report imputed the delay to the bad weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impute/#x2)
- The scientist imputed the missing temperature using the average of the days before and after. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impute/#x3)
- Don't impute the mistake to her; it was mine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impute/#x4)
- The judge refused to impute guilt without evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impute/#x5)
- The historian would not impute cruelty to the king without evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impute/#x6)

### note

Formal. Noun «imputation». Easier everyday words: «blame», «put down to». In data work, imputed values are estimates, not real measurements, and good reports say which ones were filled in.

### In the corpora

- [Then their spirit doth pass over and transgress, and they become guilty: even they who impute their might unto their god.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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