| Pronunciation: | | in'fur
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| | Definition: | |
- [v] believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"
- [v] guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"
- [v] reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- [v] conclude by reasoning; in logic
- [v] draw from specific cases for more general cases
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| | Synonyms: | | deduce, deduce, deduct, derive, extrapolate, gather, generalise, generalize, guess, understand |
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| | See Also: | | believe, carry back, conclude, conclude, elicit, extrapolate, figure out, lick, overgeneralise, overgeneralize, puzzle out, reason, reason, reason out, reason out, solve, surmise, tell, universalise, universalize, work, work out |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*fer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inferred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Inferring}.] [L. inferre to bring into, bring forward,
occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf. F.
inf['e]rer. See 1 st {Bear}.]
1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] --Harvey.
2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to
allege; to offer. [Obs.]
Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring
arguments of mighty force. --Shak.
4. To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or
surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a
consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I
inferred his determination from his silence.
To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition
laid down as true, to draw in another as true.
--Locke.
Such opportunities always infer obligations.
--Atterbury.
5. To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.]
The first part is not the proof of the second, but
rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the
first. --Sir T. More.
This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. --Shak.
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