different between consider vs infer

English

Alternative forms

• considre (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English consideren, from Middle French considerer, from Latin considerare.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?s?d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?s?d?/, [k?n?s???]
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)

Verb

consider (third-person singular simple present considers, present participle considering, simple past and past participle considered)

1. (transitive) To think about seriously.

   Synonyms: bethink, (on) reflect
2. (intransitive) To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
3. (transitive) To think of doing.

   Synonyms: think of, bethink

4. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.

   Synonyms: deem, regard, think of; see also Thesaurus:deem

   • 1825, Thomas Macaulay, An Essay on John Milton

     Considered as plays, his works are absurd.
5. (transitive) To look at attentively.

   Synonyms: regard, observe; see also Thesaurus:pay attention
6. (transitive) To take up as an example.
7. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate (or dispose of) a motion.

   Synonyms: deliberate, bethink

8. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

   Synonym: take into account

   • February 21, 1679, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer

     England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.

Usage notes

• In sense 3, this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• considre, decorins

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kon?sider]

Verb

consider

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of considera

English

Etymology

From Latin infer?, from Latin in- (“in, at, on; into”) + Latin fer? (“bear, carry; suffer”) (cognate to Old English beran, whence English bear), from Proto-Italic *fer?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?éreti (“to bear, carry”), from the root *b?er-. Literally “carry forward”, equivalent to “bear in”, as in concluding from a premise.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?f?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?f??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

infer (third-person singular simple present infers, present participle inferring, simple past and past participle inferred)

1. (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. [from 16th c.]
   • 2010, "Keep calm, but don't carry on", The Economist, 7 Oct 2010:

     It is dangerous to infer too much from martial bluster in British politics: at the first hint of trouble, channelling Churchill is a default tactic for beleaguered leaders of all sorts.

2. (transitive) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially with a person as subject.) [from 16th c.]
   • a. 1535, Thomas More, letter to Fryth

     the fyrste parte is not the proofe of the second. but rather contrarywyse the seconde inferreth well y? fyrst.

3. (obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8:

     faire Serena […] fled fast away, afeard / Of villany to be to her inferd […].

4. (obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in. [16th–18th c.]

Usage notes

There are two ways in which the word "infer" is sometimes used as if it meant "imply". "Implication" is done by a person when making a "statement", whereas "inference" is done to a proposition after it had already been made or assumed. Secondly, the word "infer" can sometimes be used to mean "allude" or "express" in a suggestive manner rather than as a direct "statement". Using the word "infer" in this sense is now generally considered incorrect. [1] [2]

Synonyms

• assume, conclude, deduce, educe, construe

Related terms

• inferable
• inference
• illative
• illation
• -ferous (-iferous)

Translations

Anagrams

• -frine, Finer, finer, frine

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.fer/, [???f?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.fer/, [?inf?r]

Verb

?nfer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?nfer?

References

• infer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• infer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette