(a.) Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both sides sought a decisive goal in a frenetic finish but ultimately the league leaders and the side fighting relegation shared the points and Mourinho wound up making dark allusions to the influence of officials .
(2) The research reported here comprises an empirical investigation of the phenomenon of typographic allusion.
(3) Although psychiatric literature abounds in allusions to the phenomenon of "déjà vu", few communications were devoted to an analysis of this interesting psychological state.
(4) Mislabelling of shadow as distractor words and vice versa, on recall and recognition tasks, showed the strongest correlation with allusive thinking.
(5) Alain's allusions to unfamiliar subjects, whether literary or not, are another problem he shares with many French writers – though these aren't really a problem for the translator.
(6) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
(7) At the recent Encountering the Anthropocene conference convened by the University of Sydney, an Indigenous elder described to me some of the allusive stories of his people's empathetic relationships with whales.
(8) Like all Hamilton's interiors it is a space of strange allusiveness and ambiguities.
(9) There have been months of speculation, ranging from the discovery in January that variations on the name of the New York City FC team had been registered as domain names , to a recent heavy-handed allusion Commissioner Garber made to there being an announcement expected in a few weeks — widely taken as a reference to the forthcoming Manchester City vs Chelsea friendly at Yankee Stadium.
(10) is an allusion to the disbelief that she and the others feel at how people on benefits are being treated, she says.
(11) It is hypothesized that allusive, as compared with non-allusive thinkers, have a broader but less intense attention process associated with weaker inhibition.
(12) Pressed by Marr on whether he would raise the level of fuel duty, Osborne would not be drawn but made vague allusions to his party’s manifesto commitments.
(13) The use of actors enabled Barnard to introduce further layers of allusion to Dunbar's career.
(14) He washed volunteers’ feet on the steps of the capitol building in an allusion to the gospel of John, in which Jesus washes the disciples in what Cato said was an act of love “with no caveat”.
(15) Rendering these pronunciations on paper gives Riddley Walker the physical intimacy of throat and mouth working, but there's depth and allusion to it to.
(16) Horace Walpole (1717-1797) coined the term serendipity in 1754 in allusion to an ancient oriental legend of the "Three Princes of Serendip".
(17) But the headline is also an ironic allusion to the state-funded radio service that broadcast anti-communist propaganda around the world during the cold war.
(18) The whole King James Bible is littered with literary allusions, almost as many as Shakespeare (to quote that distinguished authority Anon, the trouble with Hamlet is it's so full of clichées).
(19) Gay viewers seeking mainstream self-identification in the cinema have usually had to settle for winking nuances and allusions, or at worst, the more oblivious homoeroticism of sundry Michael Bay-style brawnfests.
(20) The only allusion to the controversy of the continued presence in this country that I could find in the museum was a notice near the entrance to the Duveen Gallery.
Implicit
Definition:
(a.) Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.
(a.) Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement.
(a.) Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience.
Example Sentences:
(1) It transpired that in 65% of the analysed advertisements explicit or implicit claims were made.
(2) The coefficient of repeatability statistic appears to facilitate the assessment of pattern electroretinograms and permits the comparison of the repeatability of both implicit time and amplitude parameters irrespective of absolute values.
(3) These limitations expressly declared in the ISO 2631 guide are also implicit in the other regulations proposed.
(4) The important concept implicit in this formula is that the hemodynamic evaluation of a stenotic valve requires that the pressure gradient across that valve be examined in light of the cardiac output passing through the orifice.
(5) The interpretation of results with calcium-permeabilized cells, in general, has depended on the implicit assumption that the ionophore-induced calcium distribution among the cells is uniform.
(6) How, we might ask, can homophobic bullying be tackled when implicitly sanctioned by the school’s own literature?
(7) There is always an implicit choice in what is included and what is excluded, and this choice can become a political issue in its own right.
(8) The authors draw attention to an assumption often implicit in presentation and utilisation of attitude data, that attitudes are the cause of behaviour.
(9) The fundamental behavioural adaptations implicit in the 'Upper Palaeolithic Revolution' (possibly including language) are thought to have been responsible for this rapid dispersal of human populations over the ecologically demanding environments of last-glacial Europe.
(10) The repair of PLD was implicitly involved in the probability of the interaction of sublesions.
(11) There's something in an airport which seems to crystallise the notion of implicit catastrophe.
(12) It is further shown that a strict distinction between "implicit" and "explicit" is not possible for behavioural manifestations, but rather they constitute poles of a continuum in which all communicative modes could be incorporated.
(13) The present study examined the possibility that tasks which require memory only implicitly would be performed normally.
(14) The results support the hypotheses implicit in the scanty literature available that the frequency and effects of torture in women differ from those found in men.
(15) It is done implicitly, not explicitly,” he said, with the whole system geared to deliver “a very clear message that you should keep silent and focus on your own research”.
(16) There was no recordable rod response; however, a delay in the cone b-wave implicit time was noted.
(17) All they want, executives say, is for that implicit subsidy to be replaced by cash or other forms of support as it declines in value as we approach digital switchover.
(18) The patient demonstrated arteriolar narrowing, as well as an increased photopic b-wave implicit time, decreased scotopic b-wave amplitude, and a slightly abnormal electro-oculogram (EOG).
(19) It is implicit that overactivity or functional failure of any one or combination of the integral reflexes may cause a significant disorder of lower urinary tract function.
(20) (I leave it implicit, but that's the age the child would be when his — or her — grandmother completed two full terms in the White House.)