Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To offer for consideration or action; propose.
- transitive verb To express or say indirectly.
- transitive verb To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply.
- transitive verb To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke.
- transitive verb To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To place before another's mind problematically; hint; intimate; insinuate; introduce to another's mind by the prompting of an indirect or mediate association.
- To act, as an idea, so as to call up (another idea) by virtue either of an association or of a natural connection between the ideas.
- To seduce; tempt; tempt away (from).
- Synonyms Intimate, Insinuate, etc. See
hint . - To indicate, prompt, advise, remind of.
- To make suggestions; be tempting; present thoughts or motives with indirectness or with diffidence to the mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
- transitive verb To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate.
- transitive verb obsolete To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
- transitive verb obsolete To inform secretly.
- intransitive verb obsolete To make suggestions; to tempt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.
- verb To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).
- verb transitive To ask for without demanding.
- verb transitive To
recommend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb call to mind
- verb suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
- verb drop a hint; intimate by a hint
- verb make a proposal, declare a plan for something
- verb imply as a possibility
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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However, as the title suggest, the blogs also suggest ways of countering "Eurabia" and restoring sanity.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It's about as good as the title suggest ie; not very, but there are some corker tracks.
Archive 2009-08-01 Glenn Dunks 2009
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As the title suggest is a hive of authors that posting and sharing their fiction with anyone with access to the World Wide Web.
Archive 2009-03-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2009
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All you can do in order to learn Chinese quick, as the title suggest, is to get familiar with the language so as to be able to get your way around.
Learn Chinese quick 2008
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I think not doing so will hurt the poor (which you suggest is code for “racial minority”) in the future, when Social Security as we know it is insolvent.
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As the title suggest, the show will be hinged on the Sarah Connor character, but not her toughness, but rather her inner struggle of protecting and trianning a future savior, raising a son as normal as possible and trying to stop all of this from happening to begin with.
You Be the Critic: TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES & BROTHERS & SISTERS | the TV addict 2008
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Directions on the label suggest using 3,500-4,000 grams for about a tenth of an acre to kill red spiders.
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Directions on the label suggest using 3,500 to 4,500 grams for about a tenth of an acre to kill red spiders.
An Elusive Source 2007
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The Hummer and the Mini by Robyn WatersAs the two iconic machines in the title suggest, the products that succeed in our polarized age can confound the expectations of even the savviest marketers.
Quick Read 2007
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As the title suggest, this is a 3-bag collector, I like these over the 2-baggers because they can hold much more grass clippings, and or leaves, before you have to empty the bags.
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