Infer

Definition: Infer

Infer

Verb

1. Reason by deduction; establish by deduction.

2. Draw from specific cases for more general cases.

3. Conclude by reasoning; in logic.

4. Guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize".

5. Believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Note: Infer \In*fer"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Inferred; present participle verb or noun Inferring.]. (references)

Synonyms: Infer

Latency Implication

Involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; entail; whisper; (conceal).

Reasoning,

Contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on; infer.

Crosswords: Infer

Latin (bring in, import, inflict, obtain).

Books

• Growth in East Asia: What We Can and What We Cannot Infer (reference)

• Inferencing: Using Context Clues to Infer Meaning (Basic Skills Series) (reference)

• Using Groundwater Responses to Infer Recharge: Using Groundwater Responses to Infer Recharge: Studies in Catchment Hydrology: The Basics of Recharge and Discharge Part 5 (reference)

• What can the Developing Countries Infer from the Uruguay Round Models for Future Negotiations (Policy Issues in International Trade and Commodities Study Series) (reference)

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Temperature contours showing continuity of Mid-Atlantic Ridge From Atlas of the METEOR Expedition Combining sparse depth readings and temperature to infer bathymetry. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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Perhaps we need only to know how his shores trend and his adjacent country or circumstances, to infer his depth and concealed bottom

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Health

It is reasonable to infer that triglyceride plays an important role in the regulation of HDL metabolism. (references)

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Expressions using "infer": infer from ♦ infer smth.. Additional references.

Albanian

tregoj (argue, bear, bespeak, betoken, bring out, connotate, connote, denote, designate, direct, display, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, express oneself, extend, finger, give away, indicate, make out, manifest, narrate, note, point out, present, proclaim, produce, profess, prove, read, recite, relate, show, show round, spiel, spin out, tell, tell tales, yield), nxjerr përfundim (conclude, gather), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), konkludoj (conclude), dëshmoj (bear witness, evidence, indicate, testify, witness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عقد إستدلالات, ‏خمن (appraise, estimate, evaluate, guess, riddle, size up, speculate, suppose, surmise), ‏إستنتج (conclude, deduce, deduct, derive, draw, draw conclusions, educe, estimate, induce, put two and two together, ratiocinate, understand), ‏إستدل (deduce), ‏ظهر (appear, arise, back, brighten up, bring out, come to light, declare, declassify, define, denote, develop, evidence, exercise, exhibit, express, feature, image, indicate, loom, manifest, mark, note, occur, outcrop, parade, peep, play up, poke, pop up, proclaim, produce, reveal, show, show up, spring, surface, turn up, walk), ‏دل (announce, betoken, bode, denote, designate, indicate, proclaim, promise, read, signify, speak). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заключавам (conclude, educe, gather, induce, reason), загатвам (allude, ask a riddle, hint at, imply), подразбирам (get the idea, intend, mean, understand). (various references)

Chinese 

推論 , 推断 (generalise, generalised, generalize, generalized, Generalizing, inference, Inferred, Inferring). (various references)

Czech

usoudit (gather), odvozovat (derive), naznaèit (indicate, intimate, suggest, throw out). (various references)

Danish

slutte (abstract, deduce, gather, induce). (various references)

Dutch

concluderen (abstract, gather, induce), besluiten (abstract, accomodate, decide, end, finish, gather, induce, terminate), afleiden (abduce, abduct, abstract, deduce, derive, distract, divert, entertain, extract, gather, induce). (various references)

Esperanto

konkludi (abstract, gather, induce). (various references)

Faeroese

koma til niðurløgu (abstract, gather, induce). (various references)

Farsi 

پی بردن به (Spell, Trace), استنتاج کردن (Conclude, Derive, Evolve, Induce, Subsume), استنباطکردن (Construe, Deduce, Divine, Educe, Induct), اشاره کردن بر (Indicate, Suggest). (various references)

Finnish

tehdä johtopäätös (abstract, conclude, deduce, draw a conclusion, gather, induce). (various references)

French

conclure (induce). (various references)

German

folgern (abstract, conclude, deduce, gather, induce, reason, to conclude, to deduce, to infer), schließen (abstract, bolt, clause, close, close down, closing, conclude, contract, derive, enter into, form, gather, induce, lock, make, reason, shut, shut down, to clause, to close, to conclude (with), to shut, wind up). (various references)

Greek 

συμπεραίνω (conclude, conjecture, deduce, presume). (various references)

Hungarian

magával von (to infer), következtet (conclude, deduce, draw conclusions, to conclude, to conjecture, to deduce, to evolve, to infer, to judge, to reason). (various references)

Indonesian

menyimpulkan, berarti (be significant, denote, import, mean). (various references)

Italian

dedurre (abstract, conclude, deduce, deduct, elicit, gather, induce), concludere (abstract, break up, clinch, close, complete, conclude, deduce, do, end up, finalize, finish, gather, induce, make, make a contract, put through, tie up, top off, wrap up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

拝察 (surmise, sympathize), 察知 (sense). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さっち (sense), はいさつ (surmise, sympathize). (various references)

Manx

tayrn veih, infearaghey. (various references)

Norwegian

slutte seg til (enlist, join), antyde (hint, imply, insinuate, intimate). (various references)

Papiamen

konklú (abstract, gather, induce). (various references)

Pig Latin

inferay.(various references)

Portuguese

inferir (abstract, below, collect, conclude, deduce, educe, follow, gather, imply, induce), implicar (carry, connotate, connote, draw in, entangle, implicate, imply, import, involve, predicate, presuppose, purport, spell, suggest), demonstrar (approve, argue, demonstrate, evidence, evince, prove, set forth, set out), concluir por infer�ncia. (various references)

Romanian

indica (denote, designate, indicate, Mark, point out, record, set, shape, show, sign, signify, tell), trage concluzia (argue), presupune (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, fancy oneself, feel, imagine, imply, presume, suppose, surmise, suspect), necesita (ask, call, claim, demand, have, involve, necessitate, need, require, want), determina (abstract, appoint, ascertain, bring, call forth, cause, conditional, convince, define, determine, dictate, draw, entail, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason, urge), deduce (argue, collect, conclude, deduce, deduct, draw, educe, evolve, gather, induce), conchide (conclude, gather). (various references)

Russian 

выводить заключение (educe), заключать (conclude, confine, encompass, establish, inclose, inclosing, include, nail down, transact), заключить (clinch a bargain, conclude), подразумевать (imply, mean, understand, understand by), делать вывод (conclude, deduce, draw a conclusion, draw conclusion, gather, reason). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvoditi zaključak (deduce), zaključiti (close, conclude, gather, induce, sign, take out). (various references)

Spanish

inferir (deduce, derive, inflict). (various references)

Swedish

innebära (amount to, connote, implicate, imply, import, intend). (various references)

Turkish

sonuç çıkarmak (conclude, deduce, educe, induce, make inferences, reason), anlamına gelmek (add up, add up to, amount, be, connote, imply, mean, purport, read, signify, spell, stand for), anlam çıkarmak (get a grip on, judge, make out). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити висновок (conclude, deduce, draw a conclusion, educe, elicit, gather), означати (bespeak, betoken, connotate, connote, denote, imply, import, indicate, mean, note, purport), припускати (accept, acknowledge, admit, concede, conjecture, presume, propose, surmise, understand). (various references)

Welsh

casglu (accumulate, amass, collect, gather). (various references)

collecta, collectae, collectam, collecti, collectis, collecto, collectos, collectum, collectus, collegerimus, collegeris, collegerunt, collegi, collegissent, collegisset, collegisti, collegit, colleximus, collexistis, colligam, colligant, colligas, colligat, colligatis, colligatur, colligebant, colligebat, colligendas, colligendi, colligendum, colligens, colligent, colligentem, colligentes, colligentur, colligere, colligerent, colligeret, colligeris, colliges, colligesque, colliget, colligetur, colligimus, colligit, colligite, colligitur, colligo, colligunt, colliguntur, conclude, concludens, concludent, concluderet, concludes, concludi, concluditur, conclusae, concluserant, concluserat, concluserint, concluseris, concluserunt, conclusi, conclusis, conclusisset, conclusisti, conclusit, conclusus, conclususque, coniecto, conligare, inferre. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "infer": inferable, inference, inferences, inferential, inferentially, inferior, inferiorities, inferiority, inferiorly, inferiors, infernal, infernally, inferno, infernos, inferred, inferrer, inferrers, inferrible, inferring, infers, infertile, infertilities, infertility. (additional references)

Words ending with "infer": coinfer, misinfer. (additional references)

Words containing "infer": coinferred, coinferring, coinfers, misinferred, misinferring, misinfers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Infer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Einfuhr, Enefer, enfer, enfor, Iafei, ifar, iinfer, inder, inear, ineer, inef, ineft, ineq, iner, inerj, inerr, infa, infart, infe, infeed, infere, inferm, inferr, infid, infin, infir, infit, infore, infred, inher, inifer, inoffe, interf, interp, interr, interv, inve, inver, Jimfer, nifa, nifer, niffer, rinfer, uncfder, zinfer. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: finer.

-1 letter: fern, fine, fire, firn, neif, reif, rein, rife.

-2 letters: ern, fen, fer, fie, fin, fir, ire, ref, rei, rif, rin.

-3 letters: ef, en, er, if, in, ne, re.

+1 letter: fainer, ferine, finder, finery, finger, friend, fringe, infare, infers, knifer, niffer, redfin, refind, refine.

+2 letters: bonfire, coinfer, conifer, definer, fainter, fancier, fawnier, fearing, feigner, fermion, fernier, finders, fingers, finnier, fireman, firemen, firepan, flinder, flinger, foreign, freeing, friends, fringed, fringes, funkier, funnier, gunfire, infares, inferno, infuser, kerfing, knifers, niffers, niftier, redfins, reefing, reffing, refinds, refined, refiner, refines, refrain, reunify, sniffer, snifter, unfired, unifier.