Definitions for "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 conclude from evidence or premises.
To predict something based on what is true about a smaller group of people or about parts of the larger whole; building a larger idea or conclusion from blocks of smaller examples.
To bring on; to induce; to occasion.
To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.
guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"
From RDF Semantics ( 2004-02-10) (n.) An act or process of constructing new expressions from existing expressions, or the result of such an act or process. Inferences corresponding to entailments are described as correct or valid . , formal description of a type of inference; , organized system of inference rules; also, software which generates inferences or checks inferences for validity.
To deduce the meaning of a lexical item from the context in which it occurs.
to hint; imply; suggest.
To offer, as violence.
To show; to manifest; to prove.
draw from specific cases for more general cases
believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"
to form an understanding or to interpret the meaning of what someone else says or writes, e.g. students infer meanings from what is written in texts or from what teachers say