different between utterance vs assertion
utterance
English
Alternative forms
- utteraunce
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t???ns/
- Hyphenation: ut?ter?ance
Etymology 1
From utter +? -ance.
Noun
utterance (countable and uncountable, plural utterances)
- An act of uttering.
- July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
- Mathematics and Poetry are [...] the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.
- July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
- Something spoken.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.
- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.
- The ability to speak.
- A manner of speaking.
- (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.
Related terms
- utter
- utterable
- utterer
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French oultrance.
Noun
utterance (plural utterances)
- (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
References
Further reading
- utterance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- utterance at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- cruentate
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assertion
English
Etymology
Middle French assertion, from Latin assertio
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s????n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??s????n/, [??s??n?]
- Rhymes: -??(?)??n
Noun
assertion (countable and uncountable, plural assertions)
- The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
- Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.
- You're a man of strong assertions!
- A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.
- That's just a bare assertion.
- Maintenance; vindication
- the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives
- (programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
- 2006, Srikanth Vijayaraghavan, Meyyappan Ramanathan, A Practical Guide for SystemVerilog Assertions (page 284)
- The user should be absolutely confident that the error issued is a real design error. In other words, a user should be confident that his assertion code is correct and that the assertion failure is not a false condition.
- 2006, Srikanth Vijayaraghavan, Meyyappan Ramanathan, A Practical Guide for SystemVerilog Assertions (page 284)
Synonyms
- accusation
- allegation
- censure
- charge
- crimination
- impeachment
Related terms
- assertoric
Translations
References
- “assertion” in the Collins English Dictionary
- assertion at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Restainos, airstones, arsonites, asterions, notarises, rai stones, reasonist, senoritas, señoritas
French
Etymology
From Latin asserti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.s??.sj??/
Noun
assertion f (plural assertions)
- assertion
Related terms
- asserter
- assertif
- assertivement
- assertoire
Further reading
- “assertion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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