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seems
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?mz/
- Homophones: seams, semes
Verb
seems
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of seem
Anagrams
- Meess, meess, semes, smees
seems From the web:
- what seems to be the officer problem
- what seems to have motivated mccarthyism
- what seems right to a man
- what seems to be your boggle
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- what seems to be the original purpose of the lottery
- what seems illegal but isn't
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imply
English
Etymology
From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?pla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Hyphenation: im?ply
Verb
imply (third-person singular simple present implies, present participle implying, simple past and past participle implied)
- (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
- (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference
- (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
- (archaic) to enfold, entangle.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (to have as a necessary consequence): entail
- (to suggest tacitly): allude, hint, insinuate, suggest
Related terms
- implicate
- implication
- implicative
- implicit
- implicitness
- implision
Translations
See also
- connotation
- entail
Further reading
- imply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- imply in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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- what you implying
- implied consent
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