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Definition: Implied |
ImpliedAdjective1. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "implied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ImpliedSynonyms: silent (adj), tacit (adj), understood (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Declaratory; intelligible; literal; synonymous; tantamount; (equivalent); implied; (latent); explicit. |
Latency Implication | Adjective: latent; lurking;Verb: secret; occult; implied; Verb: dormant; abeyant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, it is implied by the fact that you have removed the plaques from the societies to which you no longer belong (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer) Bradford was pessimistic, but implied that maybe all was not lost (The Creeping Terror; writing credit: Arthur Ross; Robert Silliphant) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
J. William Fulbright | The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To (r)repose implied luxury, and there was respect in it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | United Arab Emirates | However, if given at least implied permission to report on such matters, critical articles are published. (references) |
Australia | The High Court also has supported implied constitutional freedom of speech and of the press involving public political discourse. (references) | |
Australia | The Constitution does not provide for freedom of speech and of the press; however, in two decisions the High Court has indicated that freedom of political discourse is implied in the Constitution. (references) | |
Economic History | Bangladesh | No responsibility for professional ability or integrity of those listed is implied, but the firms have been chosen with care. (references) |
Egypt | There are no time limits for making payment from the date of acceptance of a bid, nor any provision for implied or automatic acceptance of a supplied good or service. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | The exporter uses his export revenue to purchase and import the goods the investor needs, and sells the goods to the investor at a price with an implied exchange rate well in excess of the black market rate. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | The ruling is also an implied exoneration of Orozco because the Prosecutor General's office had decided in March 1999 not to press charges against Orozco. (references) |
Trade | Vietnam | Moreover, even though the "right" to convert exists, there is no implied assurance of availability. (references) |
Nigeria | The Companies Act prohibits "notice of any trust, express, implied or constructive" and such shall not be entered on the register of members or be receivable by the CAC. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Morocco | The right to organize and bargain collectively is implied in the constitutional provisions on the right to strike and the right to join organizations; however, the laws governing collective bargaining are inadequate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | We have, by our own express consent, contracted to observe the Navigation Act, and by our implied consent, by long usage and uninterrupted acquiescence, have submitted to the other acts of trade, however grievous some of them may be. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Large interests have grown up under the implied pledge of our national legislation, which it would seem a violation of public faith suddenly to abandon. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Implied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 36.20% of the time. "Implied" is used about 1,730 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 36.2% | 626 | 10,355 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 32.91% | 569 | 11,073 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 29.33% | 507 | 11,929 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.56% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,730 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "implied": implied authority ♦ implied condition ♦ implied meaning ♦ implied power ♦ implied repo rate ♦ implied trust. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "implied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i vetëkuptuar, i nënkuptuar (implicit, tacit). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفهوم ضمنيا, مفهوم ضمنا (implicit, tacit), مقدر (estimated, evaluated, fatal, fated, fateful, predestined, rated, tacit), ضمني (implicit, tacit, underlying). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скрит (cagey, cagy, clandestine, close, covert, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, implicit, insidious, latent, occult, potential, private, privy, recondite, secret, sneaking, snug, ulterior, underlying), косвен (circuitous, circumstantial, collateral, implicit, indirect, mediate, oblique, vicarious), който се подразбира (constructive, implicate, implicit, inferential). (various references) | |
Chinese | 暗示 (Allude, Alluded, Alluding, Cue, Hinted, Hinting, implies, imply, Implying, suggestive, Suggestiveness). (various references) | |
Czech | implicitní (implicit), nevyslovený (tacit, unmentioned, unsaid, unspoken, unvoiced), naznaèovaný. (various references) | |
Danish | implied trust (constructive trust, implied trust, resulting trust), implied powers (implied powers), implicit pengemarkedsrente (implied repo rate), underforstået autoritet (implied authority), underforestået garanti (implied condition), stiltiende betingelser (implied condition), stiltiende afvisning (implied decision rejecting ( a request )), psykologisk indvirkning (implied coercion, vis compulsiva), moralsk tvang (implied coercion, vis compulsiva), forudsatte beføjelser (implied powers), en udtrykkelig eller stiltiende beslutning,der afslaar at anerkende,at den ovennaevnte situation bestaar (an express or implied decision refusing to recognise the existence of the situation referred to above), 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), constructive trust (constructive trust, implied trust, resulting trust). (various references) | |
Dutch | implied trust (constructive trust, implied trust, resulting trust), impliciete erfdienstbaarheid (implied basements), stilzwijgende voorwaarde (implied condition), stilzwijgende bevoegdheid (implied authority), stilzwijgend besluit tot afwijzing (implied decision rejecting ( a request )), sociale druk (implied coercion, vis compulsiva), morele dwang (implied coercion, moral coercion, vis compulsiva), gebruikte repro-rente (implied repo rate), een beschikking welke uitdrukkelijk of stilzwijgend het bestaan van de bedoelde toestand ontkent (an express or implied decision refusing to recognise the existence of the situation referred to above), 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), constructive trust (constructive trust, implied trust, resulting trust). (various references) | |
Finnish | rivien välissä oleva. (various references) | |
French | implicite (implicit), tacite (implicit), sous entendu. (various references) | |
German | inbegriffen (implicit, included, including), implizierte, besagte (said). (various references) | |
Greek | υπονοούμενος (implicit), αόρ. του imply. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרומז (hinted, implicit, suggested, tacit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szóban forgó (in question, involved), ki nem fejezett (unpronounced), következõ (ensuing, following, next, next/following, sequence, Sequent, sequential, subsequent), hallgatólagos (connivance, implicit, tacit, unspoken), burkolt (covert, hooded, insinuating, muffled, oblique, veiled), bennefoglalt, beleértett (implicit, inclusive), beleértõdõ, adódó. (various references) | |
Italian | implicito (implicit, tacit), sottinteso (allusion, implicit meaning, tacit, understood). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 言外 (implicit, unexpressed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | げんがい (excess, extra, implicit, tax reduction, unexpressed). (various references) | |
Korean | 함축하는. (various references) | |
Manx | in-hoggit, fillit (doubled up, involute, lap-jointed, plaited, rolled, wrapped). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | implieday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sujeições legais implícitas (implied basements), mandato aparente (implied authority), decisão implícita de indeferimento (implied decision rejecting ( a request )), condição implícita (implied condition), coacção moral (implied coercion, moral coercion, vis compulsiva), 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), a decisão expressa ou tácita que negue o reconhecimento da existência da situação acima mencionada (an express or implied decision refusing to recognise the existence of the situation referred to above). (various references) | |
Russian | предполагаемый (alleged, anticipative, assumable, expected, presumptive, probable, purported, putative, reputed, supposed, suppositional), подразумевать неявный, подразумеваемый (implicit, tacit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obuhvaćen (implicit), koji se podrazumeva (matter of course). (various references) | |
Spanish | implícito (constructive, implicit). (various references) | |
Swedish | underförstådd (implicit, tacit). (various references) | |
Turkish | ima edilen (implicit), kastedilen, demek istenilen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що мається на увазі (implicit), непрямий (devious, indirect, oblique, sideway, sideways, sidewise, vicarious). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngụ ý (indicative, overtone, sentiment), bao hàm, ám chỉ; mặc nhiên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Implied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amplimer, impid, implede, implie, implier, imploee, imploide, implye, Ippleden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "implied" (pronounced i'mplī"d) |
| 5 | -m p l ī" d | complied. |
| 4 | -p l ī" d | applied, misapplied, oversupplied, plied, replied, supplied. |
| 3 | -l ī" d | allied, belied, collide, lied, flied, glide, relied, slide. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-l-m-p" | |
-1 letter: dimple, limped, limpid, lipide. | |
-2 letters: imide, imped, impel, limed, lipid, medii, piled, pilei, plied. | |
-3 letters: deil, deli, diel, dime, idem, idle, imid, impi, lied, lime, limp, lipe, meld, midi, mild, mile, pied, pile, pili, pled, plie. | |
-4 letters: del, die, dim, dip, eld, elm, imp, led, lei, lid, lie, lip, med, mel, mid, mil, ped. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-l-m-p" | |
+1 letter: dimplier, milliped. | |
+2 letters: amplified, dimpliest, imperiled, millipede, millipeds. | |
+3 letters: bedimpling, bipedalism, delphinium, epidemical, epididymal, imperilled, impleading, impledging, implicated, limpidness, maxilliped, millipedes, misapplied, multiplied, prelimited, simplified. | |
+4 letters: bipedalisms, delphiniums, diplomacies, exemplified, limpidities, maxillipeds, mispleading, pilgrimaged, polemicized, spermicidal, unamplified. | |
+5 letters: complexified, epidemically, epidemiology, limpidnesses, simpleminded. | |
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