What's the difference between imply and purport?

Imply


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To infold or involve; to wrap up.
  • (v. t.) To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting.
  • (v. t.) To refer, ascribe, or attribute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
  • (2) The extreme quenching of the dioxetane chemiluminescence by both microsomes and phosphatidylcholine, as a model phospholipid, implies that despite the low quantum yield (approx.
  • (3) The number of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) producing IgM (spontaneous and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) stimulated) at the end of a seven day culture period was similar in PBC patients and control subjects while the amount of IgM synthesized (spontaneous and PWM stimulated) during this period was significantly greater in the patient group, implying that the amount of IgM produced per B cell was increased in PBC.
  • (4) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
  • (5) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
  • (6) This implies that the epitope(s) of NNA-PLA2 might comprise some substituted residues in the sequence of PLA2 homologues.
  • (7) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
  • (8) Interestingly, different mechanisms of nucleated and non-nucleated TC directed lysis by CD4+ effectors were implied by distinct patterns of sensitivity to cholera toxin (CT) and cyclosporin A (CsA).
  • (9) This implies that these proteins are quantitatively absorbed from the peritoneum without undergoing modifications.
  • (10) These findings imply that if bleeding occurs following revascularization, in addition to the use of replacement blood products, treatment should be directed at reducing the consumptive coagulopathy and inhibiting fibrinolysis.
  • (11) The use of multifactorial experiment design, a model of infectious processes and immunomodulators alone or in combination with antibiotics is implied.
  • (12) The contents of magnesium, potassium and zinc plasma did not correlate with the corresponding concentrations in skeletal muscle or circulating blood cells, as investigated in healthy controls, diabetics and in all subjects together, implying that the plasma concentrations are not useful in the assessment of electrolyte status.
  • (13) Such cell-staining capacities of the carbohydrate directed antibodies imply the importance of glycoconjugate carbohydrates as cancer cell phenotypes.
  • (14) This also implies that both tubular secretion and tubular reabsorption are susceptible to competition between similar substrates for a common carrier site.
  • (15) For a subgroup of eight patients with postoperative MPAP greater than 30 mm Hg (at pH 7.35 to 7.40), pulmonary vascular resistance index (PVRI) also significantly increased (p less than 0.05) as PaCO2 was increased, implying a direct pulmonary vasodilating effect of alkalosis.
  • (16) Demonstration of low levels of Pit-1 expression in Ames dwarf (df) mice implies that both Pit-1 and df expression may be required for pituitary differentiation.
  • (17) These data imply an essential role for Th cells, activated by DC as antigen-presenting cells (APC), in changing H-Y-nonresponder bm12 mice into H-Y responders.
  • (18) The present findings imply that patients in whom an apparent cure has been brought about by conservative treatment may harbor latent malignancy.
  • (19) These latter cardiovascular changes imply that the endotracheal pressure variations are the reflection of authentic inspiratory movements under the influence of the central nervous system.
  • (20) The relatively high HI titres observed, particularly in adults, imply that antigenic restimulation of antibody against measles occurs and thus that coverage by immunization remains inadequate.

Purport


Definition:

  • (n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
  • (n.) Disguise; covering.
  • (n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three strains of C. burnetii were studied because of the purported propensity of each strain to cause acute or chronic disease and to be resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
  • (2) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (3) We have studied the effect of a calcium ionophore, A23187, and the purported calmodulin inhibitors, calmidazolium and chlorpromazine, on direct intercellular communication between smooth muscle cells in the myometrium of delivering rats.
  • (4) It exploded when leading daily El Pais published copies of account ledgers purportedly showing irregular payments to top party members including Rajoy, its leader since 2004.
  • (5) Every story evolves with the speed of fact, not commentary or speculation.” In the case of MH17, Storyful published a blog outlining the key steps it took in verifying the information it gathered from social media, including searching through Twitter posts associated with the Donetsk People’s Republic – many of them since deleted – looking for historical references to surface-to-air missile systems, geolocating YouTube videos purporting to show the missile system in eastern Ukraine prior to the crash and verifying videos from the crash site.
  • (6) The sigma subunit regions purportedly involved in core enzyme binding and DNA promoter recognition were also highly conserved, despite the lack of a DNA promoter consensus sequence between E. coli and C. trachomatis promoters and the inability of E. coli holoenzyme to specifically transcribe chlamydial genes.
  • (7) The traffic was 10% higher than for the site's previous busiest day in the UK, which came on 9 May when the media reported on the creation of an account on the site which purported to name those who had taken out superinjunctions to prevent details being reported.
  • (8) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
  • (9) Calls are also sensitive to a variety of purported anxiolytic and anxiogenic drugs, including the benzodiazepines, serotonin agonists, and ligands at the NMDA-glycine receptor complex.
  • (10) These findings are most consistent with a generalized abnormality in complex information processing and would not support theories purporting fundamental deficits in attention or information acquisition.
  • (11) But even more than the state’s failure to rescue the 21 hostages, who were believed to have been taken in separate incidents during December and January, Egyptians are criticising Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for ordering airstrikes on purported Isis hideouts in Libya without a clear plan to evacuate Egyptians living in the country.
  • (12) The possibility that receptors may be so placed in other species warrants further work especially in those purported to lack any receptor.
  • (13) And it helps you spot phishing emails, because if an email appears in your shopping account purporting to come from your bank, for example, you'll immediately know it's a fake.
  • (14) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
  • (15) Cell-mediated cytolytic (CMC) responses resulted from immunizations between rat strains purported to be identical at Ag-B, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), but differing at other loci not linked to Ag-B.
  • (16) Because, you see, I have a hard time understanding why my wanting to stand up for democratic principles makes me unpatriotic, while the ones calling themselves patriots seem to think so little of the people and the principles that comprise the country they purport to love.
  • (17) At this time the information on these purported interactions is quite limited and there are far more questions than answers.
  • (18) A court in Egypt has sentenced eight men to three years in prison for appearing in a video that purported to show a gay wedding.
  • (19) Cognitive therapy is often used in treating attention-deficit-disordered (ADD) children because of its purported ability to address this population's attentional deficits and behavioral difficulties and to create durable therapeutic effects.
  • (20) This is a case report of a purported panencephalopathic type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (C-J) disease in a 61-year-old Japanese farmer.