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What does assert mean?

Definitions for assert
əˈsɜrtas·sert

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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

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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. Greg Poling:

    If the Lassen didn't do anything but transit, then this Freedom of Navigation Operation didn't actually assert what they had led us to believe it was supposed to: that Subi Reef doesn't get a territorial sea.

  2. Kelly Elizabeth Wright:

    You can’t control how people see you, but you have a right to assert how you’d like to be seen, the only way these things move forward is through constant reassertion.

  3. New York:

    Today...( the authors) assert, democracy's death is a slow burn, and it's already under way, thankfully, they also offer a way out.

  4. Tom Wicker:

    If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom… What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.

  5. Edward Snowden on Thursday:

    We have to have a discussion, we have to come forward with proposals to go 'how do we assert what our rights are, traditionally and digitally and to ensure that we can not just enjoy them, but we can protect them.

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