different between vouch vs assert

English

Etymology

From Middle English vouchen, that borrowed from Old French voucher, from Latin voc?re, present active infinitive of voc?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?

Verb

vouch (third-person singular simple present vouches, present participle vouching, simple past and past participle vouched)

1. To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
2. To warrant; to maintain by affirmations

   Synonyms: attest, affirm, avouch

   • October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon

     They made him ashamed first to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
3. To back; to support; to confirm.
4. To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
5. (obsolete) To call; to summon.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.

6. To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
7. To call as a witness.
8. To assert; to aver; to declare.

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Related terms

• avouch

Translations

Noun

vouch (plural vouches)

1. Warrant; attestation.

English

Etymology

From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asser? (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + ser? (“join, range in a row”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??s?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

assert (third-person singular simple present asserts, present participle asserting, simple past and past participle asserted)

1. To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

   He would often assert that there was life on other planets.

2. To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

   to assert one's authority

   Salman Rushdie has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work.

3. To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to

   to assert our rights and liberties

4. (programming) To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.
5. (electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.

Antonyms

• remit
• deny
• deassert

Synonyms

• affirm
• asseverate
• aver

Related terms

Translations

Noun

assert (plural asserts)

1. (computer science) an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.

Translations

References

• “assert” in the Collins English Dictionary

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Sastre, Saters, TASers, Tasers, Tesars, asters, reasts, setars, stares, stears, tarses, tasers

Portuguese

Noun

assert m (plural asserts)

1. (programming) assert (conditional statement that checks the validity of a value)