different between suppose vs jabber
suppose
English
Etymology
From Middle English supposen, borrowed from Old French supposer, equivalent to prefix sub- (“under”) + poser (“to place”); corresponding in meaning to Latin supponere (“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”), suppositum. See pose.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??p??z/, [s??p???z]
- (US) IPA(key): /s??po?z/, [s??p?o?z]
- (syncope, contraction)
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sp??z/, [?sp??z]
- (US) IPA(key): /?spo?z/, [?spo?z]
- Rhymes: -??z
Verb
suppose (third-person singular simple present supposes, present participle supposing, simple past and past participle supposed)
- (transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
- (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
- (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
- Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.
- (transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
- Purpose supposes foresight.
- 1752, Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
- One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.
- (transitive) To put by fraud in the place of another.
Synonyms
- assume (1,2)
- See also Thesaurus:suppose
Derived terms
- supposable
- supposed to (idiom)
- supposedly
Descendants
- Chinese Pidgin English: supposey
Translations
French
Verb
suppose
- first-person singular present indicative of supposer
- third-person singular present indicative of supposer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of supposer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of supposer
- second-person singular imperative of supposer
Italian
Verb
suppose
- third-person singular past historic of supporre
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jabber
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?æb?(?)/
- Rhymes: -æb?(?)
Etymology 1
Imitative.
Verb
jabber (third-person singular simple present jabbers, present participle jabbering, simple past and past participle jabbered)
- (intransitive) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
- 1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184,[1]
- Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 19,[2]
- “What are you jabbering about, shipmate?” said I.
- 1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184,[1]
- (transitive) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
- 1939, H. G. Wells, The Holy Terror, Book One, Chapter 1, Section 2,[3]
- He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling.
- 1939, H. G. Wells, The Holy Terror, Book One, Chapter 1, Section 2,[3]
Translations
Noun
jabber (uncountable)
- Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
- 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp. v-vi,[4]
- And, is there less Probability in my Account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many Thousands even in this City, who only differ from their Brother Brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a Sort of a Jabber, and do not go naked.
- 1918, Carl Sandburg, “Jabberers” in Cornhuskers, New York: Henry Holt & Co., p. 68,[5]
- Two tongues from the depths,
- Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike,
- Fling their staccato tantalizations
- Into a wildcat jabber
- Over a gossamer web of unanswerables.
- 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp. v-vi,[4]
Derived terms
- jabberment (obsolete)
Translations
Etymology 2
jab +? -er
Noun
jabber (plural jabbers)
- One who or that which jabs.
- A kind of hand-operated corn planter.
- 1999, Nicholas P. Hardeman, Across the Bloody Chasm
- The jabber was the most popular hand-operated corn planter ever devised. […] Inset shows jaws closed for jabbing (left) and open for depositing kernels (right).
- 1999, Nicholas P. Hardeman, Across the Bloody Chasm
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