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brunt
English
Etymology
From Middle English brunt, bront, from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”), or bruna (“to rush”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
brunt (plural brunts)
- The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
- 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar
- There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
- 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar
- The major part of something; the bulk.
Translations
Verb
brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)
- (transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 7:
- "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?"
- "What if they do? We must brunt it."
- We brunted the storm.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 7:
Anagrams
- burnt
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
brunt
- neuter singular of brun
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
brunt
- neuter singular of brun
Swedish
Adjective
brunt
- absolute indefinite neuter form of brun.
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implication
English
Etymology
From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mpl??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
implication (countable and uncountable, plural implications)
- (uncountable) The act of implicating.
- (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
- (countable, usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
- (countable, uncountable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
- 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
- (countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
- Logical consequence. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
- material implication
- strict implication
Related terms
- implicate
- implicative
- implicature
- implicit
- implicitness
- imply
Translations
Further reading
- implication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- implication in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Latin implic?ti?.
Pronunciation
Noun
implication f (plural implications)
- implication
Related terms
- impliquer
Further reading
- “implication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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