Forking and Implication

noun

• The place where something divides into branches.
  • synonyms: furcation
• The act of branching out or dividing into branches.
  • synonyms: branching, ramification, fork

verb

• Lift with a pitchfork.
  • usage: "pitchfork hay"
  • synonyms: pitchfork, fork
• Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
  • synonyms: fork
• Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
  • usage: "The road forks"
  • synonyms: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate
• Shape like a fork.
  • usage: "She forked her fingers"
  • synonyms: fork

noun

• Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
  • usage: "his resignation had political implications"
  • synonyms: deduction, entailment
• A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
  • usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
  • synonyms: significance, import
• An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
• A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
  • synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
• A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
  • usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"

• (n.) An implying or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
• (n.) The act of implicating or the state of being implicated.