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Meanings of infer in English

Portuguese
concluir
Catalan
inferir
Spanish
inferir

Reason by deduction; establish by deduction.

concluir
Portuguese
concluir
Spanish
generalizar

Draw from specific cases for more general cases.

concluir
Portuguese
supor
Catalan
conjecturar
Spanish
atinar

Guess correctly; solve by guessing.

supor
Catalan
col·legir
Spanish
deducir

Believe to be the case.

col·legir
Usage of infer in English
1
We can only infer from effects causes exactly adequate to those effects.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
2
We can infer a lot from the way he leaves the victims.
Silent screams
3
Prof Reville invited us to infer that great scientists must be religious.
The Irish Times
4
They leave the Throne to infer that Westerners borrowed it from China.
The Awakening of China
5
We infer that the Councillors in question are training for the cavalry.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917
6
We may therefore infer that they differ somewhat in their natural functions.
Insectivorous Plants
7
I rather infer that I should be very much in the way.
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
8
To infer means to draw a conclusion from what someone else implies.
BBC
9
You will immediately infer that these practised virtue in an inferior degree.
The Happiness of Heaven / By a Father of the Society of Jesus
10
As to the woman being French, I infer that from the note.
The President: A Novel
11
And from this expedition we may infer the character of earlier enterprises.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
12
We infer from the above that his religious belief is somewhat vague.
A Williams Anthology / A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Wi...
13
And from this neglect we can easily infer their indifference to it.
The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
14
You infer one thing from another, and are ruled by the inference.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
15
You must not infer, Mort-myfaith in that girl is at stake.
The Tyranny of the Dark
16
From this they infer that love justifies because it renders men perfect.
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
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