imply

noun

1. A logic gate that implements material implication.

verb

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.

1. To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.

   “Correlation does not imply causation”

   “The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.”

2. To suggest by logical inference.

   “When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown.”

3. To hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement.

   “What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?”

   “The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent.”

4. To enfold, entangle.

   “And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.”