How to Test a Hygrometer. If you're a cigar aficionado, you need a hygrometer to make sure you're storing your wares at the correct humidity. A hygrometer is an instrument that is used to measure humidity in cigar humidors as well as greenhouses, incubators, museums, and more.
verb (used with object), inferred, inferring. 1. to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice. 2. (of facts, circumstances, statements, etc.) to indicate or involve as a conclusion; lead to. 3. to guess; speculate; surmise.
Sir Thomas More is the first writer known to have used both infer and imply in their approved senses in 1528 (with infer meaning to deduce from facts and imply meaning to hint at). He is also the first to have used infer in a sense close in meaning to imply (1533).