делать вывод, строить умозаключение; выносить суждение
глагол 1) заключать; делать вывод Например: What do you infer from the voting figures? — Какие выводы вы делаете из результатов голосования? Синоним(ы): deduce, conclude, judge, gather 2) значить, обозначать, означать, подразумевать; наводить на мысль Синоним(ы): imply, mean, indicate, suggest, hint 3) делать предположение, высказывать догадку Синоним(ы): guess, surmise
verb (inferred; inferring) Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French inferer, from Latin inferre, literally, to carry or bring into, from in- + ferre to carry — more at bear transitive verb 1. to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises Example: we see smoke and infer fire — L. A. White — compare imply 2. guess, surmise Example: your letter…allows me to infer that you are as well as ever — O. W. Holmes †1935 3. a. to involve as a normal outcome of thought b. to point out; indicate Example: this doth infer the zeal I had to see him — Shakespeare Example: another survey…infers that two-thirds of all present computer installations are not paying for themselves — H. R. Chellman 4. suggest, hint Example: are you inferring I'm incompetent? intransitive verb to draw inferences Example: men…have observed, inferred, and reasoned…to all kinds of results — John Dewey • inferable also inferrible adjective • inferrer noun Synonyms: infer, deduce, conclude, judge, gather mean to arrive at a mental conclusion. infer implies arriving at a conclusion by reasoning from evidence; if the evidence is slight, the term comes close to surmise Example: from that remark, I inferred that they knew each other. deduce often adds to infer the special implication of drawing a particular inference from a generalization Example: denied we could deduce anything important from human mortality. conclude implies arriving at a necessary inference at the end of a chain of reasoning Example: concluded that only the accused could be guilty. judge stresses a weighing of the evidence on which a conclusion is based Example: judge people by their actions. gather suggests an intuitive forming of a conclusion from implications Example: gathered their desire to be alone without a word. Usage: Sir Thomas More is the first writer known to have used both infer and imply in their approved senses (1528). He is also the first to have used infer in a sense close in meaning to imply (1533). Both of these uses of infer coexisted without comment until some time around the end of World War I. Since then, senses 3 and 4 of infer have been frequently condemned as an undesirable blurring of a useful distinction. The actual blurring has been done by the commentators. Sense 3, descended from More's use of 1533, does not occur with a personal subject. When objections arose, they were to a use with a personal subject (now sense 4). Since dictionaries did not recognize this use specifically, the objectors assumed that sense 3 was the one they found illogical, even though it had been in respectable use for four centuries. The actual usage condemned was a spoken one never used in logical discourse. At present sense 4 is found in print chiefly in letters to the editor and other informal prose, not in serious intellectual writing. The controversy over sense 4 has apparently reduced the frequency of use of sense 3.