What does ASSERT mean?

Definitions for ASSERT
əˈsɜrtas·sert

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word ASSERT.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. assert, asseverate, maintainverb

    state categorically

  2. affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swearverb

    to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

    "Before God I swear I am innocent"

  3. assert, put forwardverb

    insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized

    "Women should assert themselves more!"

  4. insist, assertverb

    assert to be true

    "The letter asserts a free society"

Wiktionary

  1. assertnoun

    an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.

  2. assertverb

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

    he would often assert his beliefs to us

  3. assertverb

    To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

  4. assertverb

    To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

    The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

  5. assertverb

    to make true; to make equal to 1.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To ASSERTverb

    Etymology: assero, Lat.

    Your forefathers have asserted the party which they chose till death, and died for its defence. John Dryden, Virgil, Dedication.

    Nor can the grovelling mind,
    In the dark dungeon of the limbs confin’d,
    Assert the native skies, or own its heav’nly kind. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. assert

    To assert is to state a fact, belief, or opinion confidently and firmly. It often implies that the speaker is expecting or challenging others to accept their point of view. It can also refer to enforcing a right or exercising a power forcefully.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Assertverb

    to affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate

  2. Assertverb

    to maintain; to defend

  3. Assertverb

    to maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Assert

    as-sėrt′, v.t. to vindicate or defend by arguments or measures (now used only of the cause as object or reflexive): to declare strongly: to lay claim to or insist upon anything: to affirm: (rare) to bear evidence of.—adj. Assert′able.—ns. Assert′er, Assert′or, a champion, one who makes a positive statement; Asser′tion, affirmation: the act of claiming one's rights: averment.—adj. Assert′ive, asserting or confirming confidently: positive: dogmatic.—adv. Assert′ively.—n. Assert′iveness.—adj. Assert′ory, affirmative.—To assert one's self, to defend one's rights or opinions, sometimes with unnecessary zeal, to thrust one's self forward. [L. asserĕre (superl. assertum), aliquem manu in libertatem, to lay hands on a slave in token of manumission, hence to protect, affirm, declare—ad, to, and serĕre, to join. Cf. Series.]

British National Corpus

  1. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ASSERT' in Verbs Frequency: #706

Anagrams for ASSERT »

  1. setars

  2. stares

  3. tarses

  4. tasers

  5. Tasers

  6. asters

  7. tasser

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ASSERT in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ASSERT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ASSERT in a Sentence

  1. D. H. Lawrence:

    The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  2. Sharonne Hayes:

    Anything you can do to help you realize that you do have a choice with your health, if you assert your own power over your health, you will make better choices overall and will more consistently feel empowered to make them.

  3. Elijah Cummings:

    On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer and assert my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.

  4. The Republican:

    I know that youve overruled my request for a closed-door subpoena [of the whistleblower], ido think its important you put in to record the basis on which you continue to assert this absolute right to anonymity of the whistleblower.

  5. Pete Buttigieg:

    Democrats inference that Donald Trump is guilty because Donald Trump does not voluntarily permit Donald Trump deputies to testify hasrankled Republicans, who assert the importance of the presumption of innocence. Joe Biden then knocked Trumps argument that less than half of Americans support Joe Biden removal from office. Hes dumbing down the presidency beyond what I even thought Joe Biden would do, Joe Biden said. We need to restore the integrity of the presidency. Democratic presidential candidates from left, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer stand on stage during a Democratic presidential primary debate Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. ( Associated Press) Later, Democrats largely defended Trumps breakthrough U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which White House passed hours earlier. However, candidatesrailed against Trumps economy, despite multipleindicators that the economy is doing well. The U.S. unemployment rate stands at a half-century low of 3.5 percent, backed by consistently strong job gains in recent months that have largely squelched fears of a recession that had taken hold over the summer. This economy is not working for most of us, the middle class is getting killed, Joe Biden added. Joe Biden said the economy was not.

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