About The Word Infer
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What's The Definition Of Infer?
[v] believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"
[v] guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize" [v] reason by deduction; establish by deduction [v] conclude by reasoning; in logic [v] draw from specific cases for more general cases Synonyms | Synonyms for Infer: deduce | deduce | deduct | derive | extrapolate | gather | generalise | generalize | guess | understand Related Terms | Find terms related to Infer: allegorize | allude to | analyze | apply reason | assume | be afraid | believe | bring to mind | collect | conceive | conclude | connote | consider | daresay | deduce | deduct | deem | derive | divine | dope | draw | draw a conclusion | draw an inference | dream | entail | expect | extract | fancy | feel | fetch | find | gather | generalize | glean | grant | guess | hint | hypothesize | imagine | implicate | imply | import | induce | insinuate | intellectualize | intimate | involve | let | let be | logicalize | logicize | mean | mean to say | opine | philosophize | point indirectly to | prefigure | presume | presuppose | presurmise | provide a rationale | provisionally accept | rationalize | reason | reason that | reckon | repute | say | suggest | suppose | surmise | suspect | syllogize | synthesize | take | take as proved | take for | take for granted | take it | take to be | theorize | think | understand | use reason See Also | believe | carry back | conclude | conclude | elicit | extrapolate | figure out | lick | overgeneralise | overgeneralize | puzzle out | reason | reason | reason out | reason out | solve | surmise | tell | universalise | universalize | work | work out Infer In Webster's Dictionary \In*fer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inferred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Inferring}.] [L. inferre to bring into, bring forward,
occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf. F.
inf['e]rer. See 1 st {Bear}.]
1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] --Harvey.
2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to
allege; to offer. [Obs.]
Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring
arguments of mighty force. --Shak.
4. To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or
surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a
consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I
inferred his determination from his silence.
To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition
laid down as true, to draw in another as true.
--Locke.
Such opportunities always infer obligations.
--Atterbury.
5. To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.]
The first part is not the proof of the second, but
rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the
first. --Sir T. More.
This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. --Shak.
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