Both Uses
imply
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- At first glance the photo looked like a discard, taken during an off moment when the woman was looking away with her eyes closed, and yet there was something just right about it, too—how the woman's hair and clothes matched the black-and-white speckle of the chicken's feathers; how she and the chicken were facing opposite directions, implying some odd connection between them, as if they were speaking without words; dreaming at one another.†
p. 113.9implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
- "Look here, boy," she said, "if you imply that my sister's life is worthless again, I will clobber you."†
p. 285.5 *imply = suggest (say indirectly)
Definitions:
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(1)
(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)