imply vs infer
Definitions
verb
- suggest that someone is guilty
- express or state indirectly
- have as a necessary feature
- suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
- have as a logical consequence
Examples
It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own.
She is simply bartering goodies in return for comparative quietness.
Simply smooth a little on your face at night, lie back and say goodbye to dull and lifeless skin.
Definitions
verb
- believe to be the case
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- conclude by reasoning; in logic
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- draw from specific cases for more general cases
Examples
One infers that all of this would be computerised information.
And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank!
For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence.
