Implication
[ɪmplɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or ['ɪmplɪ'keʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
(noun.) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); 'he was suspected of implication in several robberies'.
(noun.) a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
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Definition
(n.) The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
(n.) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Involution, entanglement.[2]. Tacit inference, necessary conclusion.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See IMPLICATE]
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Examples
- Her colour rose a little at the implication, but she steeled herself with a light laugh. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You were so good as to imply, on that occasion-- Excuse me, miss, said Mr. Guppy, but we had better not travel out of the record into implication. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Startled by the implication that his face revealed too much of his mind, Bradley made an effort to clear his brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Lily laughed, but her laugh faded into gravity under the prolonged implication of Mrs. Fisher's look. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- After which offensive implication, he cut himself a crust of bread, and threw the knife down with a noise. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There has been a mean implication against my character. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Subsequent chapters will be devoted to making explicit the implications of the democratic ideas in education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Bringing these connections or implications to consciousness enhances the meaning of the experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is the nature of an experience to have implications which go far beyond what is at first consciously noted in it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Science, in short, signifies a realization of the logical implications of any knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We have been occupied with the conditions and implications of growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Not once in all the implications that have twisted themselves about us in this house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mrs. Fisher gathered up her floating implications in a resolute grasp. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The Implications of Human Association. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Its implications are well worth tracing, for through them I think we can come to understand better the method of Twentieth Century politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Surely vice has a thousand implications that touch all of us directly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The educational implications of this doctrine are threefold. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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