The difference between Entail and Imply
When used as verbs, entail means to imply or require, whereas imply means to have as a necessary consequence.
Entail is also noun with the meaning: an estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
check bellow for the other definitions of Entail and Imply
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Entail as a verb (transitive):
To imply or require.
Examples:
"This activity will entail careful attention to detail."
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Entail as a verb (transitive):
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
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Entail as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To appoint hereditary possessor.
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Entail as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
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Entail as a noun:
That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
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Entail as a noun (obsolete):
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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Imply as a verb (transitive, of a proposition):
to have as a necessary consequence
Examples:
"The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal"
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Imply as a verb (transitive, of a person):
to suggest by logical inference
Examples:
"When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown"
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Imply as a verb (transitive, of a person or proposition):
to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
Examples:
"What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't [[wash]] my hands?"
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Imply as a verb (archaic):
to enfold, entangle.