IMPLIES

Date "IMPLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Implies (=> or a thin right arrow) A binary Boolean function and logical connective. A => B is true unless A is true and B is false. The truth table is A B \| A => B ----+------- F F \| T F T \| T T F \| F T T \| T It is surprising at first that A => B is always true if A is false, but if X => Y then we would expect that (X & Z) => Y for any Z. (1995-09-30). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Math	Implication: 0 -> 0 = 1, 0 -> 1 = 1, 1 -> 0 = 0, 1 -> 1 = 1. (references)
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Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Objection! The familiar cutening of my name implies we like each other. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)
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Domain	Title
Books	Aquinas' proofs for God's existence St. Thomas Aquinas on: "The per accidens necessarily implies the per se" (reference) Islamic Socialism: What It Implies (reference) Mutual Invadability Implies Coexistence in Spatial Models (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Aristotle	Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Henry David Thoreau	Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
John Adams	Liberty, according to my metaphysics . . . is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Lord Chesterfield	Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Plutarch	Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
Robert Louis Stevenson	A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Stephane Mallarme	The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Victor Hugo	A library implies an act of faith.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Concerning the observations relating to the free zones of Haute-Savoie and the Gex district, the French Government have the honour to observe that the provisions of the last paragraph of Article 435 are so clear that their purport cannot be misapprehended, especially where it implies that no other Power but France and Switzerland will in future be interested in that question. (reference)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	If the population of the English-speaking Commonwealths be added to that of the United States with all that such co-operation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It implies a hatred of the arts.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Mandated screening for PKU implies a societal responsibility for comprehensive long-term followup and treatment. (references)
		In addition, effectiveness implies the ability of care takers to abort an apneic episode by techniques they have learned, including resuscitation. (references)
		Using a 3 percent discount rate, this implies a net present value of approximately $800,000 for direct and ancillary costs associated with a CF birth. (references)
Business		This implies a formal sector unionization rate nearly twice that high. (references)
		It implies that specific crops and products are kept apart, but does not necessarily require traceability along the production chain. (references)
		Often this implies working directly with local politicians and city government officials to address environmental policy issues and procurement needs. (references)
Children	Ireland	The Child Trafficking and Pornography Act aims to protect children from sexual exploitation, including any exchange of information on the Internet that implies a child is available for sex. (references)
Civil Liberties	Cameroon	This paper occasionally implies criticism of the Government; however, its reporters do not report extensively on activities or political parties critical of the Government, criticize overtly the ruling party, or portray government programs in an unfavorable light. (references)
Economic History	Spain	Membership implies adherence to a number of ethical codes. (references)
Political Economy	EGYPT	Although it officially accounts for only about 5 percent of GDP, a recent report by the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies implies its real impact on GDP is over 10 percent. (references)
	GUATEMALA	Furthermore, the high volume of open market operations implies a large future cost to the central bank and has raised the question of whether the central bank can continue to maintain a relatively permissive monetary policy in the face of continued fiscal debt. (references)
Trade	Singapore	Packages of food described as "enriched", "fortified", "vitaminized" or in any other way which implies that the article contains added vitamins or minerals must show the quantity of vitamins or minerals added per metric unit. (references)
Women	Chile	Since annulment implies that a marriage never existed under the law, former spouses are left with little recourse for financial support. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that some have the right to prevent others from living; for the right to own implies the right exclusively to occupy; and in fact laws of trespass are enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It follows that if the whole area of terra firma is owned by A, B and C, there will be no place for D, E, F and G to be born, or, born as trespassers, to exist. A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, For the spark the nature gave I have there the right to keep. They give me the cat-o'-nine Whenever I go ashore. Then ho! for the flashing brine -- I'm a natural commodore! Dodle
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	But its full realization also implies a greater and greater perfection in the instrumentalities for pacific settlement of controversies between nations.
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"IMPLIES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "IMPLIES" is used about 1,976 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 (-s form)	100%	1,976	4,347

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "IMPLIES": half-implies.
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Language		Translations for "IMPLIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		暗示 (Allude, Alluded, Alluding, Cue, Hinted, Hinting, implied, imply, Implying, suggestive, Suggestiveness). (various references)

Danish		valget af de vandrette akser,som udgoer afsaetningen i plan,kraever en forudgaaende undersoegelse af de hensyn,der maa tages til hver enkelt bygning (the choice of the horizontal axes which form the planimetric references implies a preliminary study of the requirements of each individual building), mikropublikation (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), forudgaaende fjernindsproejtning forudsaetter tilstedevaerelse af gallerier udenom arbejdsstedet, hvorfra det er muligt at udfoere boringer og indrette pumpestationer (advance remote infusion implies the existence of roadways in the district, where drilling and pumping equipment can be installed). (various references)

Dutch		micro-uitgeverij (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), grafisch publikatiesysteem (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), een voorafgaande diepwaterinjectie vereist het drijven van galerijen, die op het werkpunt vooruitlopen, om in deze voorgedreven galerijen de boor- en pompstations te kunnen opstellen (advance remote infusion implies the existence of roadways in the district, where drilling and pumping equipment can be installed), desktop publishing (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), de keuze van de horizontale systeemlijnen kan pas worden bepaald na een voorafgaand onderzoek van de voor elk afzonderlijk gebouw geldende eisen (the choice of the horizontal axes which form the planimetric references implies a preliminary study of the requirements of each individual building). (various references)

Finnish		mikrojulkaisutoiminta (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), mikrojulkaisu (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), kuten sen nimikin osoittaa (as its name implies), kuten nimikin edellyttää (as the name implies). (various references)

French		microédition (it implies writing text), le choix des axes horizontaux constituant le repérage planimétrique implique un examen préalable des nécessités afferentes � chaque immeuble individuel (the choice of the horizontal axes which form the planimetric references implies a preliminary study of the requirements of each individual building), la prétélé-infusion suppose l'existence de galeries extérieures au chantier, où il soit possible d'installer les stations de forage et de pompage (advance remote infusion implies the existence of roadways in the district), édition de bureau (it implies writing text). (various references)

German		impliziert (implied), besagt (aforesaid, said). (various references)

Greek		η προτηλέγχυση προϋποθέτει την ύπαρξη στοών εξωτερικών του εργοταξίου εκεί όπου είναι δυνατή η εγκατάσταση του εξοπλισμού γεώτρησης και ά (advance remote infusion implies the existence of roadways in the district, where drilling and pumping equipment can be installed), επιτραπέζιο εκδοτικό σύστημα (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer). (various references)

Italian		anzidetto. (various references)

Korean		함축한다. (various references)

Pig Latin		impliesay

Portuguese		edição assistida por computador (computer-aided publishing, computer-assisted publishing, designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, electronic publishing, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), a preteleinjecção pressupõe a existência de galerias exteriores ao desmonte,em que seja possível instalar as estações de furação e de bombagem (advance remote infusion implies the existence of roadways in the district, where drilling and pumping equipment can be installed). (various references)

Spanish		micropublicación (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), La teleinfusión previa supone la existencia de galerías exteriores a la explotación, donde sea posible instalar las estaciones de perforación y de bombeo. (advance remote infusion implies the existence of roadways in the district, where drilling and pumping equipment can be installed), autoedición (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer). (various references)

Swedish		desktop,desktopp (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer). (various references)
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Derivations
	Words containing "IMPLIES": dimpliest, pimpliest. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"IMPLIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Emplins, impis, implie, implier, imploee, implye, inlies, mielies, pimpliest. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "IMPLIES" (pronounced i'mplī"z)
5	-m p l ī" z	complies.
4	-p l ī" z	applies, plies, replies, supplies.
3	-l ī" z	belies, decriminalize, flies, lies, relies, sensationalize, underlies.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-m-p-s"
	-1 letter: impels, mislie, simile, simple.
	-2 letters: impel, impis, limes, limps, miles, pilei, piles, pilis, plies, slime, slipe, smile, speil, spiel, spile.
	-3 letters: elms, impi, imps, isle, leis, lies, lime, limp, lipe, lips, lisp, mels, mile, mils, mise, pies, pile, pili, plie, semi, simp, sipe, slim, slip.
	-4 letters: elm, els, ems, imp, ism, lei, lie, lip.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-m-p-s"
	+1 letter: imperils, limpsier.
	+2 letters: amplifies, dimpliest, imperials, implosive, impulsive, limpsiest, millipeds, pimpliest, prelimits, puerilism, simplices, slimpsier.
	+3 letters: amplifiers, bipedalism, impassible, implicates, implosives, impolicies, impossible, limpidness, millipedes, misapplied, misapplies, multiplies, palimonies, polemicist, puerilisms, semipublic, shrimplike, simplified, simplifier, simplifies, slimpsiest, specialism.
	+4 letters: amphibolies, amphiphiles, bipedalisms, delphiniums, diplomacies, epilimnions, epitheliums, exemplifies, hemiplegias, hemiplegics, hemophilias, hemophilics, impassively, imperialism, imperialist, imperiously, implausible, imprecisely, impressible, impulsively, lifemanship, limpidities, marlinspike, maxillipeds, mispleading, misspelling, multipliers, palmistries, peristomial, permissible, permissibly, pilgrimages, pimpmobiles, plebeianism, pleinairism, polemicists, polemicizes, primalities, simplifiers, specialisms, spermicidal.
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