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Implication and Stuff

noun

  • Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
    • usage: "his resignation had political implications"
  • 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"
  • 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.
  • A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
    • usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"

noun

  • The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
    • usage: "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
  • Miscellaneous unspecified objects.
    • usage: "the trunk was full of stuff"
  • Informal terms for personal possessions.
    • usage: "did you take all your clobber"
  • Senseless talk.
    • usage: "don't give me that stuff"
  • Unspecified qualities required to do or be something.
    • usage: "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
  • Information in some unspecified form.
    • usage: "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
  • A critically important or characteristic component.
    • usage: "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

verb

  • Cram into a cavity.
    • usage: "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
  • Press or force.
    • usage: "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
  • Obstruct.
    • usage: "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
  • Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.
    • usage: "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
  • Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting.
    • usage: "stuff a bearskin"
  • Fill tightly with a material.
    • usage: "stuff a pillow with feathers"
  • Fill with a stuffing while cooking.
    • usage: "Have you stuffed the turkey yet"