impute

«impute» in Mova's school dictionary: caused by or belongs to someone: to impute blame — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (impute, imputes, imputed, imputing; formal)

meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To say that something, usually bad, is caused by or belongs to someone: to impute blame. tree →

2) (maths and statistics) To fill in a missing value in data with an estimated one. tree →

sense in the lessons

A stiff exam and legal word: «they imputed the failure to poor planning». In data and statistics, imputing means guessing a missing number from the others, for example using the average. Phrases: impute blame, impute motives, impute missing values.

examples

• It is unfair to impute bad motives to someone without proof. tree →
• The report imputed the delay to the bad weather. tree →
• The scientist imputed the missing temperature using the average of the days before and after. tree →
• Don't impute the mistake to her; it was mine. tree →
• The judge refused to impute guilt without evidence. tree →
• The historian would not impute cruelty to the king without evidence. tree →

note

Formal. Noun «imputation». Easier everyday words: «blame», «put down to». In data work, imputed values are estimates, not real measurements, and good reports say which ones were filled in.

In the corpora

• Then their spirit doth pass over and transgress, and they become guilty: even they who impute their might unto their god.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «impute» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.