People in personal communication with each other, in appeals to the public are expressed metaphorically, implying something - this is a standard presentation of thoughts and provision of information.
Thanks to general concepts and expressions, speech becomes richer and more vivid. Words and their combinations, which carry a broad meaning, are able to convey to others the thoughts of the speaker in a certain interpretation.
Implying is how?
In Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary, the definition of the word sounds like "to assume in the thoughts of someone …". T. F. Efremov gives the concept a synonym: "speak in hints".
So, it is clear that "to imply" means that the speaker hides his true thoughts or paraphrases words in such a way that the information is clear to the interlocutor. This also applies to proverbs and sayings that have subtext, carrying a deep meaning.
Not only in everyday speech can something be implied. This word is often found in educational literature, printed publications.
When expressing themselves at public meetings, even when composing a speech or an article, in order to avoid repetition, they resort to replacing words and definitions and do not namethem.
Why should we imply anything?
It's no secret that our distant ancestors are monkeys. The animal world left its imprints on us. The habits of animals and humans are often similar. For example, gossip. No, it's not like the macaques are talking about each other away from the pack. They have a closer bonding style - grooming.
People have replaced this process of communication in a formal group by providing each other with reliable or unverified information. In other words, we do not delve into the interlocutor's hair, we gossip.
For a "secret" conversation, people replace direct statements with veiled words. When we talk, we tend to mean. This is a desire to smooth the flow of information. In order not to shock the interlocutor with the news, you should simply not finish speaking, but keep in mind a specific person or event.
Examples
In sentences you can find indirect indications of a specific object or phenomenon. For example:
- The presence of a high temperature in a patient suggests an inflammatory process.
- Violation of traffic rules entails (implies) the collection of fines.
- In A. S. Pushkin's poem "Monument" the combination "monument not made by hands" implies popular recognition and love, memory of the poet's work.
- "The cancer whistles on the mountain" - part of the proverb, which implies a low probability of the event.
