Allude
[ə'l(j)uːd] or [ə'lʊd]
Definition
(verb.) make a more or less disguised reference to; 'He alluded to the problem but did not mention it'.
Typist: Marietta--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.
(v. t.) To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.
Checker: Vivian
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Point, indicate, suggest, hint, signify, insinuate, refer, imply, intimate
ANT:Specify, demonstrate, declare, mention, state
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Definition
v.i. to mention slightly or convey an indirect reference to in passing: to refer to.—n. Allū′sion an indirect reference.—adj. Allus′ive alluding to: hinting at: referring to indirectly.—adv. Allus′ively.—Allusive arms (her.) also canting or punning arms and armes parlantes those in which the charges convey reference to the bearer's name or title as the column of the Colonna family the Vele calf (O. Fr. veé™?i> a calf) the Arundel martlets (O. Fr. arondel a young swallow).
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Examples
- I'm frank and open; considering all things, it was very kind of you to allude to the circumstance--very kind and polite. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Excuse me if I allude to that which is painful to you, but I have no alternative. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Long since you ought to have crushed it: now you should blush to allude to it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But I happen to know the story to which you allude; and I also know that a viler falsehood than that story never was told. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Did the honourable Pickwickian allude to him? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I allude particularly to Fanny and Harriette. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And with all this, the sweetest tempered person (I allude to Mr. Godfrey)--the simplest and pleasantest and easiest to please--you ever met with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I alluded to the coldness of her letters; but the few minutes we had spent together sufficiently explained the origin of this. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I had never doubted that the Moonstone had found its way into Mr. Luker's hands, at the time Mr. Murthwaite alluded to. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You alluded to something else. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- One or other of those shady Englishmen to whom I have alluded, would get them the copy you have described. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But being in company with the brother of a doosed fine gal--well educated too--with no biggodd nonsense about her--at the period alluded to--' 'There! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The village of Nunnely has been alluded to--its old church, its forest, its monastic ruins. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I could not hope to get a lodging under a roof, and sought it in the wood I have before alluded to. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A pretty list indeed, said Brougham, alluding to my characters, as advertised in the newspapers by Stockdale. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But she probably had something of that in her thoughts, when alluding to the misunderstandings which he had given us hints of before. Jane Austen. Emma.
- If you saw a nymph you would go mad, remarked Maurice, alluding to the old Greek superstition. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We must not conclude this notice of Paper Making Machinery without alluding to the ingenious self-acting mechanisms for making envelopes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I am now only alluding to a few pages of it, for I soon grew tired of my occupation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The sight of Betsey brought the image of little Mary back again, but she would not have pained her mother by alluding to her for the world. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It looks like rain, said her mother, observing that she had on her new bonnet, but not alluding to the fact. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In the vegetable kingdom Mr. Mivart only alludes to two cases, namely the structure of the flowers of orchids, and the movements of climbing plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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