单词 | implication |
释义 | implicationn. 1. The action of involving, entwining, or entangling; the condition of being involved, entangled, twisted together, intimately connected or combined. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > fact or action of being concerned with meddlingc1390 implicationc1430 mellingc1440 intermeddling1531 participation1582 mashing1607 trucka1625 concern1643 involvedness1654 interest1660 involvement1706 business1759 immixture1859 involution1886 a piece (also share) of the action1938 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] implicationc1430 implicamentc1450 imployment1598 implicity1602 tangle1615 illigation1656 perplexity1664 entanglement1687 intertwisting1753 intertanglement1817 tanglement1831 ravelment1833 bewilderment1844 intertwist1870 betanglement1881 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xii. 182 Seculere implicacioun and worldliche ocupacioun. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 110v Comparable to the implications of the sinewes of the arme. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Implication, a wrapping in, or intangling. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D4 Sir Thomas Perrot..married..a Lady of great Honour, which are presumptions in some implications. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 218 By implication of some atoms cohering mutually to one another. 1727 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead I. ii. 27 Distinguished from the corporeal Machines and the Implications of Matter. 1832 J. Austin Province Jurispr. vi. 355 A convention bilateral is formed by the implication of several unilateral conventions. 1843 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life I. ii. 20 The mystic implication of his nature with ours. 2. a. The action of implying; the fact of being implied or involved, without being plainly expressed; that which is involved or implied in something else. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > implied meaning > [noun] meaninga1387 signifiantc1415 implication1581 impliance1677 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [noun] > communicating indirectly whisperingc1384 mustering1440 insinuation1532 implication1581 whistering1586 insinuating1644 implial1846 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > implied meaning > [noun] > instance of implicative1589 subintelligitur1612 subintelligence1631 undersong1631 deuteroscopy1646 implication1657 subauditur1702 undermeaning1841 implial1846 more than meets the eye (also ear)1853 under-sense1859 overtone1869 implicate1881 1581 W. Charke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. B b iij Inferred in the scripture by good proofes of consequence and implication. 1657 O. Cromwell Speech 21 Apr. in Writings & Speeches (1947) (modernized text) IV. 495 It is but an implication, it is not determined. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 35 Here..is a plain implication of an intelligible human nature. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ in Wks. (1825) III. 129 He does not say this is different from ordinary usage—this is left to implication. 1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. iii. 86 Facts, of which the clear implications can by no party be denied. 1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics ii. §7. 20 These implications of the Evolution-Hypothesis, we shall now see harmonize with the leading moral ideas men have otherwise reached. b. by implication: by what is implied though not formally expressed, by natural inference. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > implied meaning > [adverb] impliedlyc1449 by implicationa1575 implicatelya1575 implicitly1610 askance1876 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adverb] sidelings?a1400 covertlyc1400 impliedlyc1449 by implicationa1575 implicatelya1575 implicatively1579 over the shoulder1596 interpretatively1602 implicitly1610 indirectly1613 insinuatively1617 enfoldedly1624 involvedly1624 tacitly1635 tacidly1640 by interpretation1692 adumbratively1753 inexplicitly1776 interpretively1867 a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 33 Though not by express words, yet by implication and meaning. 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 54 It followes by implication that amongst posterity, some one must have precedence. 1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 36 It does not give it to France, either expressly or by implication. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 639 The Chronicles..seem to call him Ealdorman by implication. c. Logic. A relationship between propositions such that the one implies the other; also, a proposition asserting such a relationship. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > implication logical implication1887 prehensiveness1897 formal implication1903 material implication1903 implication1906 strict implication1912 entailment1933 1906 B. Russell in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 28 202 The subject which comes next in logical order is the theory of formal implication. 1922 W. E. Johnson Logic II. vi. 152 When a formula of implication is used as a premiss in the process of deduction, its implicans must first be formally certified in order that its implicate may be formally certified. 1932 C. I. Lewis & C. H. Langford Symbolic Logic v. 93 The dot preceding the implication-sign. 1947 H. Reichenbach Elem. Symbolic Logic §6.24 The expression to the left of the implication sign is called implicans. 1952 P. F. Strawson Introd. Logical Theory iii. 85 The futility of identifying conditional statements with material implications is obvious. 1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic ix. 286 The proposition..may have its implication sign deleted. 1957 A. N. Prior Time & Modality i. 1 Moh Shaw-Kwei has attempted to lay down the conditions which entitle an operator to be considered as an implication-operator. 1963 W. Sellars in Castañeda & Nakhnikian Morality & Lang. of Conduct 178 In other words, shall-statements, unlike implication statements, are in the object-language. 1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics x. 446 Implication, in the sense in which it has been defined here, is in principle objectively testable. 3. The process of involving or fact of being involved in some condition, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > undesired or unintended consequence(s) or side-effect repercussion1603 aftermath1671 ill effect1675 mal-effect1686 side effect1814 wrack1844 implication1873 backwash1876 katzenjammer1897 backlash1921 kickback1935 spillover1940 fallout1954 rub-off1962 booby prize1972 own goal1975 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > [noun] > implicit inclusion involution1611 involvement1706 introvolution1829 implication1873 1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 173 This implication of the lymphatics is much more marked than in the sarcomata [etc.]. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 17 The younger the sufferers [from acute rheumatism] the greater the liability to cardiac implications. 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