Infer vs. Conclude — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Infer and Conclude
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Infer
To conclude from evidence or by reasoning
"For many years the cerebral localization of all higher cognitive processes could be inferred only from the effects of brain injuries on the people who survived them" (Sally E. Shaywitz).
Conclude
To bring to an end; close
Concluded the rally with the national anthem.
Infer
To involve by logical necessity; entail
"Socrates argued that a statue inferred the existence of a sculptor" (Academy).
Conclude
To bring about (a final agreement or settlement)
Conclude a peace treaty.
Infer
(Usage Problem) To indicate indirectly; imply.
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Conclude
To arrive at (a conclusion, judgment, or opinion) by the process of reasoning
The jury concluded that the defendant was innocent.
Infer
To draw inferences.
Conclude
(Obsolete) To confine; enclose.
Infer
(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
Conclude
To come to an end; close
The show concluded with a dance routine.
Infer
To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply.
Conclude
To come to a decision or agreement
The committee concluded on a course of action.
Infer
(obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone.
Conclude
(intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
The story concluded with a moral.
Infer
(obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in, to adduce.
Conclude
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
Infer
To bring on; to induce; to occasion.
Conclude
(transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
To conclude a bargain
Infer
To offer, as violence.
Conclude
(transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
Infer
To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.
Full well hath Clifford played the orator,Inferring arguments of mighty force.
Conclude
(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
Infer
To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.
To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true.
Such opportunities always infer obligations.
Conclude
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.
The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
Infer
To show; to manifest; to prove.
The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first.
This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
Conclude
(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
Infer
Reason by deduction; establish by deduction
Conclude
(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
Infer
Draw from specific cases for more general cases
Conclude
(logic) to deduce, to infer develop a causal relation
Infer
Conclude by reasoning; in logic
Conclude
To shut up; to inclose.
The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
Infer
Guess correctly; solve by guessing;
He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize
Conclude
To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
Infer
Believe to be the case;
I understand you have no previous experience?
Conclude
To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; - sometimes followed by a dependent clause.
No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith.
Conclude
To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
But no frail man, however great or high,Can be concluded blest before he die.
Is it concluded he shall be protector?
Conclude
To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state.
Conclude
To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain.
Conclude
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; - generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument.
If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
Conclude
To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.
A train of lies,That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries.
And, to conclude,The victory fell on us.
Conclude
To form a final judgment; to reach a decision.
Can we conclude upon Luther's instability?
Conclude and be agreed.
Conclude
Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion;
We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house
Conclude
Bring to a close;
The committee concluded the meeting
Conclude
Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
Conclude
Come to a close;
The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin
Conclude
Reach agreement on;
They concluded an economic agreement
We concluded a cease-fire
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