different between deem vs asses

English

Etymology

From Middle English d??men (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English d?man (“to decide, decree, deem, determine, judge; to condemn, doom, sentence; to consider, examine, reckon, think; to prove; to compute, estimate; to declare, tell; to glorify, praise”), from Proto-Germanic *d?mijan? (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”). It is also related to doom.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /di?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dim/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Verb

deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.

   Synonym: judge
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.

   Synonym: judge
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

   Synonym: judge

4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.

   Synonyms: consider; see also Thesaurus:deem
5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

deem (plural deems)

1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Mede, deme, meed

Dutch

Alternative forms

• deim

Noun

deem m (plural demen, diminutive deemke n)

1. (Brabant) dumb person

Synonyms

• sukkel

References

• [1]

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German themu, demu, from Proto-Germanic *þammai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?m/
  • Rhymes: -e?m

Determiner

deem m or n (unstressed dem)

1. dative of deen
2. dative of dat

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?de.??j/
• (Portugal, following a non-nasal sound) IPA^(key): [?ðe.??j]

Verb

deem

1. inflection of dar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dim/

Noun

deem (plural deems)

1. woman, dame
2. maid (especially a kitchen maid)

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs?z/
• Rhymes: -æs?z

Noun

asses

1. plural of ass

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 2

Latin ass?s, nominative plural of as

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs?z/, (Latinistic) /?æsi?z/

Noun

asses

1. plural of as (“Roman coin”)

Anagrams

• Essas, SASEs, Sasse, Sessa, sasse, sessa

Latin

Verb

ass?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of ass?

Portuguese

Verb

asses

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of assar
2. second-person singular negative imperative of assar