Infer: alternatives and connections

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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To shut up; to inclose.

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To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.

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A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a…

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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To make universal; to generalize.

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Act or process of deducing or inferring.

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Act or process of deducing or inferring.

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The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; c…

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The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; c…

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To lead forth.

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To lead forth or out.

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To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into…

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To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

Infer overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.