Carry_weight vs Imply - What's the difference?
carry_weight | imply | Related terms |
To be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.
To have influence.
* 1948 Rollo H. Myers, Erik Satie, D. Dobson, p31
* 2002 Elizabeth Moynihan, Destiny's Whisper, Writers Club Press, p376
* 2010 Gordon Ryan, American Voices: State of Rebellion, p247
(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:
Carry_weight is a related term of imply.
As verbs the difference between carry_weight and imply
is that carry_weight is to be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs while imply is (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence.carry_weight
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Verb
(head)- Your excuses don't carry weight with me.
- When M. Paladilhe was elected my friends said to me: 'Never mind; later on he'll vote for you, Maestro, and his support will carry a lot of weight' . I never had his vote, nor his support, nor his weight.
- Manning Senior carries a lot of weight around here, he has a lot of friends ; a lot of professional clout and can obviously get things done just barely within the lines of legality.
- A recommendation from him carries a lot of weight around here.
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 .
