Entails vs Imply - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between entails and imply

is that entails is (entail) while imply is (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence.

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(en-verb)

(of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence

The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal

(of a person) to suggest by logical inference

When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown

(of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement

What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?

(archaic) to enfold, entangle.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:

And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes .

* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

* (to have as a necessary consequence) entail * (to suggest tacitly) allude, hint, insinuate, suggest

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