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Definition: INFERRED |
INFERREDImperative & past participle1. Of Infer |
Date "INFERRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You were saying that when the closet door was open, Maria received a bump on the head, and from that that you inferred that someone had been hiding in the closet, monsieur -- (A Shot in the Dark; writing credit: Marcel Achard; William Peter Blatty) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. |
St. Jerome | Sometimes the character of the mistress if inferred from the dress of her maids. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Causality may be inferred based on consistency of the data, strength of association, temporality, dose response, specificity, and biologic plausibility. (references) | |
The potential efficacy of these approaches in persons with this degree of obesity, therefore, must be inferred from evidence of their efficacy in less obese persons. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | The Constitution requires that the Government provide care for orphans and persons with disabilities; however, it does not specify the definition of the term "care", and the provision of education to all children with mental and physical disabilities never has been inferred from the requirement. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | From the general policy and course of proceeding observed by the allied powers in regard to this contest it is inferred that they will confine their interposition to the expression of their sentiments, abstaining from the application of force. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "INFERRED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "INFERRED" is used about 295 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 80% | 236 | 19,516 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.88% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.12% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 295 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "INFERRED": inferred reserve. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inferred | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INFERRED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 推断 (generalise, generalised, generalize, generalized, Generalizing, infer, inference, Inferring). (various references) | |
Danish | mulig reserve (inferred reserve, possible reserve, prospective reserve), den stiltiende beslutning om afslag,som anses at vaere en foelge af denne passivitet (the implied decision of refusal which is to be inferred from the silence on the matter). (various references) | |
Dutch | mogelijke reserve (inferred reserve, possible reserve, prospective reserve), de stilzwijgende weigering,die in dit nalaten is besloten (the implied decision of refusal which is to be inferred from the silence on the matter). (various references) | |
French | ressource présumée (inferred resource), réserve possible (inferred reserve), la décision implicite de refus qui est réputée résulter de ce silence (the implied decision of refusal which is to be inferred from the silence on the matter). (various references) | |
German | gefolgert, folgerte (concluded, deduced). (various references) | |
Greek | πιθανά αποθέματα (inferred resource, probable reserves), η σιωπηρά αρνητική απόφαση που θεωρείται ότι προκύπτει από τη σιωπή αυτή (the implied decision of refusal which is to be inferred from the silence on the matter). (various references) | |
Italian | risorsa stimata (inferred resource), riserva possibile (inferred reserve, possible reserve, prospective reserve), riserva latente (hidden reserve, inferred reserve, possible reserve, prospective reserve), la decisione implicita di rifiuto che si presume risulti da questo silenzio (the implied decision of refusal which is to be inferred from the silence on the matter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inferreday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | a decisão implícita de recusa que se deduz deste silêncio (the implied decision of refusal which is to be inferred from the silence on the matter). (various references) | |
Spanish | reserva posible (inferred reserve, possible reserve, prospective reserve), recurso inferido (inferred resource), la decisión implícita de denegación que se presume resulta de este silencio (the implied decision of refusal which is to be inferred from the silence on the matter). (various references) | |
Swedish | det avslagsbeslut,som skall anses föreligga som en följd av denna passivitet (the implied decision of refusal which is to be inferred from the silence on the matter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "INFERRED": coinferred, misinferred. (additional references) | |
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"INFERRED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ijnferred, inered, infared, infere, infered, infermed, inferre, infored, infreared, infred, infured. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INFERRED" (pronounced i'nfer"d) |
| 4 | -n f er" d | conferred. |
| 3 | -f er" d | chauffeured, deferred, preferred, referred, transferred. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-n-r-r" | |
-1 letter: definer, dernier, fernier, ferried, nerdier, refined, refiner, refired, refried. | |
-2 letters: defier, define, denier, fender, ferine, finder, friend, nereid, redfin, refind, refine, refire, reined, render. | |
-3 letters: defer, diene, diner, direr, drier, eider, ender, erred, fiend, fined, finer, fired, firer, freed, freer, frere, fried, frier, infer, refed, refer, rider, rifer. | |
-4 letters: deer, defi, dene, deni, dere. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-i-n-r-r" | |
+1 letter: deferring, refrained. | |
+2 letters: coinferred, ferredoxin, friendlier, interfered, reinforced, reinformed. | |
+3 letters: denitrifier, ferredoxins, fraternized, misinferred, overrefined, reconfirmed, refurnished. | |
+4 letters: counterfired, denitrifiers, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, foreordained, intergrafted, overinformed, reconfigured, ultrarefined, undersheriff, unfriendlier, unreinforced. | |
+5 letters: ferricyanides, ferrocyanides, fingerprinted, recentrifuged, undersheriffs. | |
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