implication

implication
    n 1: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or
         implied); "his resignation had political implications"
         [syn: {deduction}, {entailment}, {implication}]
    2: a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred;
       "the significance of his remark became clear only later";
       "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
       [syn: {significance}, {import}, {implication}]
    3: an accusation that brings into intimate and usually
       incriminating connection
    4: a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form
       `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false [syn:
       {implication}, {logical implication}, {conditional relation}]
    5: a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close
       connection (especially an incriminating involvement); "he was
       suspected of implication in several robberies"
    

Implication \Im`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. implicatio: cf. F.
   implication.]
   1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
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            Three principal causes of firmness are. the
            grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of
            component parts.                      --Boyle.
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   2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed;
      an inference, or something which may fairly be understood,
      though not expressed in words.
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            Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the
            king might do, it was a necessary implication that
            there were other things which he could not do.
                                                  --Hallam.
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IMPLICATION. An inference of something not directly declared, but arising 
from what is admitted or expressed. 
     2. It is a rule that when the law gives anything to a man, it gives him 
by implication all that is necessary for its enjoyment. It is also a rule 
that when a man accepts an office, he undertakes by implication to use it 
according to law, and by non-user he may forfeit it. 2 B1. Com. 152. 
     3. An estate in fee simple will pass by implication; 6 John.. R. 185; 
IS John. R. 31; 2 Binn. R. 464, 532; such implication must not only be a 
possible or probable one, but it must be plain and necessary that is, so 
strong a probability of intention that an intention contrary to that imputed 
to the testator cannot be supposed. 1 Ves. & B. 466; Willes, 141; 1 Ves. jr. 
564; 14 John. R. 198. Vide, generally, Com. Dig. Estates by Devise, N 12, 
13; 2 Rop. Leg. 342; 14 Vin. Ab. 341; 5 Ves. 805; 5 Ves. 582; 3 Ves. 676. 
    

180 Moby Thesaurus words for "implication":
      absorption, accusal, accusation, accusing, affective meaning,
      allegation, allegement, allegory, allusion, arcane meaning,
      arraignability, arraignableness, arraignment, assault, association,
      assumption, attack, bearing, bill of particulars, blame,
      blameworthiness, bloody hands, bringing of charges,
      bringing to book, broad hint, burden, censurability,
      censurableness, censure, charge, chargeability, citation, clue,
      coloration, coloring, complaint, complicity, conclusion,
      connection, connotation, consequence, count, criminality, cue,
      culpability, delation, denotation, denouncement, denunciation,
      dirty hands, drift, effect, embarrassment, engagement, enmeshment,
      entailment, entanglement, essence, extension, force, gentle hint,
      gesture, gist, glimmer, glimmering, grammatical meaning, guilt,
      guiltiness, guilty conscience, hint, idea, impact, impeachability,
      impeachableness, impeachment, implied meaning, import, impugnment,
      imputation, inclusion, incrimination, inculpation, index,
      indication, indictability, indictableness, indictment, inference,
      information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intension, intimation,
      involution, involvement, ironic suggestion, kick, lawsuit,
      laying of charges, lexical meaning, literal meaning, look, meaning,
      metaphorical sense, nod, nuance, nudge, occult meaning, onus,
      overtone, peccancy, pertinence, pith, plaint, point,
      practical consequence, presumption, presupposition, prompt,
      prosecution, purport, range of meaning, real meaning,
      red-handedness, reference, referent, relation, relevance,
      reprehensibility, reproach, reproachableness, reprovability,
      reprovableness, scent, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field,
      sense, sign, signal, significance, signification, significatum,
      signifie, span of meaning, spirit, spoor, structural meaning,
      subsense, subsidiary sense, substance, subsumption, suggestion,
      suit, sum, sum and substance, supposition, suspicion,
      symbolic meaning, symbolism, symptom, taxing, telltale, tenor,
      tinge, totality of associations, touch, track, transferred meaning,
      true bill, unadorned meaning, undercurrent, undermeaning,
      undertone, unspoken accusation, value, veiled accusation, whisper,
      wink