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{"id": "imply", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "imply", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English: from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare, from in- \u2018in\u2019 + plicare \u2018to fold\u2019. The original sense was \u2018entwine\u2019; in the 16th and 17th centuries the word also meant \u2018employ\u2019. Compare with employ and implicate"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflections": [{"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "implies"}, {"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "implying"}, {"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "implied"}], "notes": [{"text": "Imply and infer do not mean the same thing and should not be used interchangeably: see infer", "type": "editorialNote"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/imply_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u026am\u02c8pl\u028c\u026a"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference"], "examples": [{"text": "salesmen who use jargon to imply superior knowledge"}, {"notes": [{"text": "with clause", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "text": "the report implies that two million jobs might be lost"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0499100.006", "shortDefinitions": ["indicate truth or existence of something by suggestion rather than explicit reference"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["(of a fact or occurrence) suggest (something) as a logical consequence"], "examples": [{"text": "the forecasted traffic increase implied more roads and more air pollution"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0499100.012", "shortDefinitions": ["suggest something as logical consequence"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "involve"}, {"language": "en", "text": "entail"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "imply", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0007476.002"}]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "insinuate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "suggest"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hint"}, {"language": "en", "text": "intimate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "implicate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "say indirectly"}, {"language": "en", "text": "indicate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "give someone to understand"}, {"language": "en", "text": "give someone to believe"}, {"language": "en", "text": "convey the impression"}, {"language": "en", "text": "signal"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "imply", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0007476.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "imply"}], "type": "headword", "word": "imply"}], "word": "imply"}
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