to infer
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5.5
- verb
- /ɪnˈfɜr/
:
deducir
- From the clues provided in the text, you can infer the author's main argument.
- infer the existence
- infer relationships
- infer causality
They allow us to glimpse or to infer the world that Funes lived in.
- They allow us to glimpse or to infer the world that Funes lived in.
- It's trying to infer your intention with all these cues.
- The shortest path is inferred from the object.
- And you can infer similar things looking at at Hamas.
- We cannot legitimately rationally infer anything.
- This is what is inferred by the word prosody in the definition of fluency.
- So what I infer from that is you just lower the stakes of the whole thing.
- It points to transitions, edges from which we infer things, and a world of things.
Examples
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What I infer from your letter is that you used to be close friends, but are no longer so.
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You can infer the trajectory of the bullets.
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And yet we are able to infer that it's a car.
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And so possible to look at me and infer the history that led to me.
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You can only infer another person's mind.
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So what I infer from that is you just lower the stakes of the whole thing.
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And from that you infer that infections must have peaked days earlier.
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Now I can infer that he's a bit of a gambler.
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Now, in humans, we often infer emotional states, as you'll hear later today from facial expressions.
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What can you infer about Drew St. James's victory over Betty Lou?
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
To believe something is true from what you hear or read
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4.9
Think something is true from what someone has said or shown
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3.1
Understand something from evidence or from what someone says
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4.9
To show that something is likely true because of evidence
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4.6
Figure out something from facts or evidence
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8.5
To use known information to guess what will be true in new situations
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4.3
Find a result or conclusion by careful thinking
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4.4
Reach a conclusion by using known facts
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Infer comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and ferre 'to bring' or 'carry', so it originally meant 'bring in'. Think of it like offer or transfer, words that also mean moving something, and that's why to infer is to 'bring in' a conclusion from the evidence.