Demonstrates vs Implies - What's the difference?
demonstrates | implies |
(demonstrate)
To display the method of using an object.
To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
To participate in or organize a demonstration.
(imply)
(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 verbs the difference between demonstrates and implies
is that demonstrates is while implies is (imply).demonstrates
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(head)demonstrate
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(demonstrat)See also
* show * prove ----implies
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(head)imply
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(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 .