different between surmise vs maintain

English

Etymology

From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s???ma?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??ma?z/
• Hyphenation: sur?mise

Noun

surmise (countable and uncountable, plural surmises)

1. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
2. Reflection; thought; posit.

Translations

Verb

surmise (third-person singular simple present surmises, present participle surmising, simple past and past participle surmised)

1. To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.

Translations

Further reading

• surmise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• surmise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• misuser

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.miz/
• Homophones: surmisent, surmises

Verb

surmise

1. first-person singular present indicative of surmiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of surmiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of surmiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of surmiser
5. second-person singular imperative of surmiser

Anagrams

• mûrisse

English

Etymology

From Middle English mayntenen, from Old French maintenir, from Late Latin man?tene?, man?ten?re (“I support”), from Latin man? (“with the hand”) + tene? (“I hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?n?te?n/, /m?n?te?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

maintain (third-person singular simple present maintains, present participle maintaining, simple past and past participle maintained)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action. [14^th-19^thc.]
2. To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.). [from 14^thc.]
3. To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert. [from 15^thc.]

Antonyms

• (to keep up): abandon

Derived terms

• maintainability

Related terms

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Anagrams

• amanitin