different between inference vs augury
inference
English
Etymology
Morphologically infer +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.f?.??ns/, [???.f?.??ns], [???.f??ns]
Noun
inference (countable and uncountable, plural inferences)
- (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
- (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
Hyponyms
Translations
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??nf?r?nt?s?]
Noun
inference f
- inference
Synonyms
- usuzování
Related terms
- See oferta
Further reading
- inference in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- inference in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
inference From the web:
- what inference can be made about the cyclops
- what inference does the narrator make
- what inference about the 1920s is supported by this illustration
- what inference can be drawn from the graph
- what inference can be made from the passage
- what inference can be made about the narrator
- what can be inferred about the cyclops
augury
English
Etymology
augur +? -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.?j?.?i/
Noun
augury (countable and uncountable, plural auguries)
- A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
- (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
- No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:augury.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:omen
Hyponyms
Related terms
- augur
Translations
augury From the web:
- what augury appeared to remus and romulus
- augury meaning
- augury what does that mean
- what is augury in the bible
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