IMPUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impute mean? 

• IMPUTE (verb)
  The verb IMPUTE has 2 senses:

1. attribute or credit to

2. attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

  Familiarity information: IMPUTE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPUTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they impute    ... he / she / it imputes   
Past simple: imputed   
Past participle: imputed   
-ing form: imputing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attribute or credit to

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute

Context example:

People impute great cleverness to cats

Hypernyms (to "impute" is one way to...):

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Verb group:

impute (attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "impute"):

impute (attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source)

carnalize; sensualize (ascribe to an origin in sensation)

credit (give someone credit for something)

reattribute (attribute to another source)

anthropomorphise; anthropomorphize (ascribe human features to something)

personate; personify (attribute human qualities to something)

accredit; credit (ascribe an achievement to)

blame; charge (attribute responsibility to)

externalise; externalize; project (regard as objective)

interiorise; interiorize; internalise; internalize (incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

imputation (the attribution to a source or cause)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness

Hypernyms (to "impute" is one way to...):

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute (attribute or credit to)

Verb group:

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute (attribute or credit to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

imputation (a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense))

 Context examples 

Hours Imputed: Entire time (hours, minutes and seconds) is imputed.

(Hours Minutes Seconds Imputed, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An imputed time that includes the hour, minute and second of observation.

(Hours Minutes Seconds Imputed, NCI Thesaurus)

An imputed date that includes the day of observation.

(Day Imputed, NCI Thesaurus)

It could only be imputed to increasing attachment.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The calendar date of the observation that is imputed.

(Imputed Date, NCI Thesaurus)

The time of the observation that is imputed.

(Imputed Time, NCI Thesaurus)

Month Imputed: Month and day are imputed.

(Month Day Imputed, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An imputed date that includes the month and day of observation.

(Month Day Imputed, NCI Thesaurus)

Minutes Imputed: Minutes and seconds are imputed.

(Minutes Seconds Imputed, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An imputed time that includes the minute and second of observation.

(Minutes Seconds Imputed, NCI Thesaurus)