different between implicate vs implication

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin implicatus < implico (“entangle, involve”), from plico (“fold”). Doublet of imply and employ.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /??mpl?ke?t/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /??mpl?k?t/

Verb

implicate (third-person singular simple present implicates, present participle implicating, simple past and past participle implicated)

1. (transitive, with “in”) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.

2. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.

3. (pragmatics) To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
4. (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

Related terms

• implication
• implicative
• implicature
• implicit
• implicitness
• imply

Translations

Noun

implicate (plural implicates)

1. (philosophy) The thing implied.

See also

• (connect with a crime): grass, inform, squeal

Italian

Verb

implicate

1. second-person plural present of implicare
2. second-person plural imperative of implicare
3. feminine plural past participle of implicare

Latin

Participle

implic?te

1. vocative masculine singular of implic?tus

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)

1. (uncountable) The act of implicating.
2. (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
3. (countable, usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.

4. (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.

5. (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".
6. 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)

1. implication

Related terms

• impliquer

Further reading

• “implication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).