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defer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
- (US) IPA(key): /d??f?/
- Hyphenation: de?fer
Etymology 1
Originally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differ?.
Verb
defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)
- (transitive) To delay or postpone
- (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.
- (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
- (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
Derived terms
- deferral
- deferment
Related terms
- differ
Translations
Etymology 2
From late Middle English differren (“to refer for judgement”), from Middle French déférer, from Latin d?fer?.
Verb
defer (third-person singular simple present defers, present participle deferring, simple past and past participle deferred)
- (transitive, intransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
- 1872, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor
- worship deferred to the Virgin
- 1872, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor
Derived terms
- deference
Translations
Anagrams
- freed, refed
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?de?.fer/, [?d?e?f?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?de.fer/, [?d???f?r]
Verb
d?fer
- second-person singular present active imperative of d?fer?
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imply
English
Etymology
From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?pla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Hyphenation: im?ply
Verb
imply (third-person singular simple present implies, present participle implying, simple past and past participle implied)
- (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
- (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference
- (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
- (archaic) to enfold, entangle.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (to have as a necessary consequence): entail
- (to suggest tacitly): allude, hint, insinuate, suggest
Related terms
- implicate
- implication
- implicative
- implicit
- implicitness
- implision
Translations
See also
- connotation
- entail
Further reading
- imply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- imply in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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