imply

1. (transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.Examples: "Correlation does not imply causation"; "The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal."; "Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares."Synonyms: entail, implicate, importtransitive

2. (transitive, of a person) To suggest by logical inference.Examples: "When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown."transitive

3. (transitive, of a person or proposition) To hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement.Examples: "What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?"; "The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent."; "Naturally, the river wasn't wrinkled or creased at all— wrong words, implying something unfluid like skin, something unenduring, prey to age."Synonyms: allude, hint, insinuate, suggest, infertransitive

4. (archaic) To enfold, entangle.Examples: "And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes."archaic