imply

verb4

1. •
   To hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement.

   • What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
2. •
   To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.

   • Correlation does not imply causation
   • The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.
3. •
   To suggest by logical inference.

   • When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown.
4. •
   (no longer used) To enfold, entangle.

   • And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes. — 1590

noun1

1. •
   A logic gate that implements material implication.