Intent vs Implication - What's the difference?
intent | implication | Related terms |
A purpose; something that is intended.
(legal) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
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*2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
*:Uruguay were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and seemed intent on showing they were a better team than had been apparent in their defeat to Costa Rica.
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*:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
Engrossed.
Unwavering from a course of action.
(uncountable) The act of implicating.
(uncountable) The state of being implicated.
(countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
(countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
As nouns the difference between intent and implication
is that intent is a purpose; something that is intended while implication is the act of implicating.As an adjective intent
is firmly fixed or concentrated on something.intent
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Alternative forms
* entent (obsolete)Noun
Adjective
(en adjective)World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark," guardian.co.uk , 20 June:
implication
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- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.