Incorporate vs Imply - What's the difference?
incorporate | imply |
To include (something) as a part.
* Addison
To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
To admit as a member of a company
To form into a legal company.
(US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
* Shakespeare
To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
* Bishop Stillingfleet
(obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
* Shakespeare
* Francis Bacon
Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
(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 incorporate and imply
is that incorporate is to include (something) as a part while imply is (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence.As an adjective incorporate
is (obsolete) corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.incorporate
English
Verb
(incorporat)- The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
- to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
- The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
- Incorporate air into the mixture.
- The company was incorporated in 1980.
- By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
- The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
Derived terms
* incorporatedAdjective
(en adjective)- As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
- a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
- Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
- an incorporate banking association
Anagrams
* ----imply
English
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 .