Allusion vs Imply - What's the difference?
allusion | imply |
An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication.
(of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
(of a person) to suggest by logical inference
(of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
(archaic) to enfold, entangle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
As a noun allusion
is allusion.As a verb imply is
(of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence.allusion
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(wikipedia allusion)Noun
(en noun)imply
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Verb
(en-verb)- The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal
- When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown
- What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
- And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes .