different between view vs assertion

English

Etymology

From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vju?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

view (plural views)

1. (physical) Visual perception.
   1. The act of seeing or looking at something.
      • , Book II, Chapter XXI

        Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
   2. The range of vision.

      Synonyms: sight, eyeshot

      • The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.

   3. Something to look at, such as scenery.

      Synonym: vista

      • 1799, Thomas Campbell, s:The Pleasures of Hope

        'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

   4. (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user.

      Synonyms: (of a webpage) pageview, (of a video) play

   5. (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
      • c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece

        [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.

2. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.

3. An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
   1. A mental image.
   2. A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.

      • to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty
   3. A point of view.

   4. An intention or prospect.

      • No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he does

4. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
5. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
6. A wake. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• (part of computer program): model, controller

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Verb

view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)

1. (transitive) To look at.

   The video was viewed by millions of people.
2. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

   I view it as a serious breach of trust.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deem

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Translations

See also

• see
• look
• voyeur

Anagrams

• wive

Middle English

Noun

view

1. Alternative form of vewe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English view.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viw/
• Homophone: viu

Noun

view f (plural views)

1. (databases) view (logical table formed from data from physical tables)

   Synonym: visão

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)

1. The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
2. Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.

   You're a man of strong assertions!
3. A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.

   That's just a bare assertion.

4. Maintenance; vindication

   the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives

5. (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.

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)

1. assertion

Related terms

• asserter
• assertif
• assertivement
• assertoire

Further reading

• “assertion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).