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

  1. Entail as a verb (transitive):

    To imply or require.

    Examples:

    "This activity will entail careful attention to detail."

  2. 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.

  3. Entail as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To appoint hereditary possessor.

  4. Entail as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

  1. 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.

  2. Entail as a noun (obsolete):

    Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

  1. 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"

  2. 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"

  3. 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?"

  4. Imply as a verb (archaic):

    to enfold, entangle.

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