Garner vs Infer - What's the difference?
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A granary; a store of grain.
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An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
* 1835 ,
* 1913 , in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
* 1956 ,
(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.
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* 1999 ,
(rare) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
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To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
* 2010 , "Keep calm, but don't carry on", The Economist , 7 Oct 2010:
To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially with a person as subject.)
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Thomas More
(obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) (upon) or (to) someone.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
(obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in.
* Shakespeare
Garner is a related term of infer.
As a proper noun garner
is .As a verb infer is
to introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.garner
English
Noun
(en noun)- That'' our garners ''may be'' full, affording all manner of store: ''that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
- Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Verb
(en verb)- I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.
- He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
- ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
- He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
- Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
- His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
- This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
- President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...
- For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;
Usage notes
The "earn, acquire, accumulate" sense should be read as a figurative extension of the original "harvest, gather" sense, sometimes with some inanimate achievement or choice metaphorically doing the "gathering", as "The new book garnered high praise''", or with an indirect object, as, "''The new book garnered the author high praise''". In this sense, the achievement, choice, or fact is actively gathering something, positive or negative, for its creator, even if that choice is inaction, as in "''Failure to try can garner you the disapproval of the industrious ".Quotations
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Verb
(inferr)- It is dangerous to infer too much from martial bluster in British politics: at the first hint of trouble, channelling Churchill is a default tactic for beleaguered leaders of all sorts.
- These and a thousand like propositions, which concurre in this purpose, do evidently inferre .
- This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
- The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first.
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- Full well hath Clifford played the orator, / Inferring arguments of mighty force.
Usage notes
There are two ways in which the word "infer" is sometimes used as if it meant "imply". "Implication" is done by a person when making a "statement", whereas "inference" is done to a proposition after it had already been made or assumed. Secondly, the word "infer" can sometimes be used to mean "allude" or "express" in a suggestive manner rather than as a direct "statement". Using the word "infer" in this sense is now generally considered incorrect.[http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000232.htm