Muster vs Infer - What's the difference?

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Muster is a related term of infer.

As a noun muster

is example.

As a verb infer is

to introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.

muster

English

Noun

(en noun)

Gathering.

# An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

#* 1743 , Joseph Steele & Richard Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. :

She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.

#* Macaulay

Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.

#* 1920 , Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia , Issue 13,

The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual.

#* 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1 :

Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.

#* 1663 , Samuel Pepys, Diary , 4 Jul 1663:

And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen

# The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.

#* Wyclif

The muster was thirty thousands of men.

#* Hooker

Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.

# (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.

#* 2006 , John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos! , Boolarong Press:

McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.

Showing.

# (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

# (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display.

#* 1590 , Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia , Book III:

Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].

#* 1647 , Beaumont and Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth , Act 2:

And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.

# A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists).

Derived terms

* pass muster * bangtail muster

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To show, exhibit.

To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.

To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.

* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.

(US) To enroll (into service).

Synonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* muster in * muster out * muster up

References

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Anagrams

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infer

English

Verb

(inferr)

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:

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.

To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially with a person as subject.)

*, II.3:

These and a thousand like propositions, which concurre in this purpose, do evidently inferre .

* Shakespeare

This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.

* Sir Thomas More

The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first.

(obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) (upon) or (to) someone.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:

faire Serena.

(obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in.

* Shakespeare

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

Synonyms

* assume, conclude, deduce, construe

Anagrams

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