Akin vs Implication - What's the difference?
akin | implication |
(of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
* 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 23:
(often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
* 1677 , , The Court of the Gentiles , T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:
* 1710 , anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator , vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:
* 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 44:
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 39:
* 1910 , , "Old Well-Well," Success (July):
(uncountable) The act of implicating.
(uncountable) The state of being implicated.
(countable) 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)
(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".
As an adjective akin
is (of persons) of the same kin; related by blood.As a noun implication is
(uncountable) the act of implicating.akin
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
- Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
- She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
- Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
- Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
- Something akin to a smile shone on his face.
Usage notes
* This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.Anagrams
* * * ----implication
English
Noun
- 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.