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adduce
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + ducere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??d(j)u?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??dju?s/, /??d?u?s/
- (US)
- Rhymes: -u?s
Verb
adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)
- (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
- 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840
- Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
- For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]
- 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
References
- adduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “adduce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- “adduce”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Italian
Verb
adduce
- third-person singular present indicative of addurre
Anagrams
- deduca
Latin
Verb
add?ce
- second-person singular present active imperative of add?c?
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ad(j)us/
Verb
adduce (third-person singular present adduces, present participle adducin, past adduced, past participle adduced)
- to adduce
- (law) to bring forth as proof
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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assert
English
Etymology
From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asser? (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + ser? (“join, range in a row”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??s?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
assert (third-person singular simple present asserts, present participle asserting, simple past and past participle asserted)
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
- He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
- To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- to assert one's authority
- Salman Rushdie has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work.
- To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
- to assert our rights and liberties
- (programming) To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.
- (electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
Antonyms
- remit
- deny
- deassert
Synonyms
- affirm
- asseverate
- aver
Related terms
Translations
Noun
assert (plural asserts)
- (computer science) an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
Translations
References
- “assert” in the Collins English Dictionary
Further reading
- assert in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- assert in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- assert at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Sastre, Saters, TASers, Tasers, Tesars, asters, reasts, setars, stares, stears, tarses, tasers
Portuguese
Noun
assert m (plural asserts)
- (programming) assert (conditional statement that checks the validity of a value)
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