People in personal communication with each other, in appeals to the public are expressed metaphorically, implying something - this is a standard statement of thoughts and the provision of information.
Thanks to common concepts and expressions, speech becomes more saturated and vibrant. Words and their combinations, which carry a wide meaning, can convey to the surrounding thoughts of the speaker in a certain interpretation.
To imply is how?
In the explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov, the definition of the word sounds like "suggesting 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 the 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, you can mean something. This word is often found in educational literature, print media.
Speaking at public meetings, even writing a speech or article, to avoid repetition, they resort to replacing words and definitions and do not name them.
Why do we mean anything?
It's no secret that our distant ancestors are monkeys. The animal world has left its imprints on us. The habits of animals and people are often similar. For example, gossip. No, not that the macaques were discussing each other away from the pack. They have a closer manner of rapprochement - this is grooming.
People have replaced this communication process in the formal group by providing each other with reliable or unverified information. In other words, we do not delve into the hair of the interlocutor, we are gossiping.
To speak “in secret”, people replace direct statements with veiled words. In telling, we tend to mean. This is the desire to smooth the flow of information. In order not to shock the interlocutor with the news, you just need to not negotiate, but keep in mind a specific person or event.
Examples
In sentences one can find indirect indications of a specific subject or phenomenon. For instance:
- The presence of high temperature in the patient suggests an inflammatory process.
- Violation of traffic rules entails (involves) the collection of fines.
- In the poem by A. S. Pushkin “Monument” the combination “monument not made by hands” implies popular recognition and love, a memory of the poet’s work.
- "Cancer on the mountain whistles" - part of the proverb, which implies a low probability of the event.