Assay vs Opinion - What's the difference?
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Trial, attempt, essay.
* Milton
Examination and determination; test.
* Shakespeare
The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
* Spenser
Tested purity or value.
* Spenser
The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
The alloy or metal to be assayed.
To attempt (something).
*Shakespeare
*:To-night let us assay our plot.
*Milton
*:Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed .
*1936 , (Alfred Edward Housman), More Poems ,
*:Who seest the stark array / And hast not stayed to count / But singly wilt assay / The many-cannoned mount.
*2011 , ‘All-pro, anti-American’, The Economist , 28 May:
*:Speaking before a small crowd beneath antique airplanes suspended in the atrium of the State of Iowa Historical Museum, an effortfully cheerful Mr Romney assayed an early version of a stump speech I imagine will become a staple of his campaign for the Republican nomination, once it "officially" begins some time next week in New Hampshire.
(archaic) To try, attempt ((to) do something).
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IX:
To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
(obsolete) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.
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*:I wold not by my wille that ony of vs were matched with hym / Nay said sir Gawayne not so / it were shame to vs were he not assayed were he neuer soo good a knyghte
*1977 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales) , Penguin Classics, p.351:
*:The marquis, in obsession for his wife, / Longed to expose her constancy to test. / He could not throw the thought away or rest, / Having a marvellous passion to assay' her; / Needless, God knows, to frighten and dismay her, / He had ' assayed her faith enough before / And ever found her good; what was the need / Of heaping trial on her, more and more?
To affect.
*Spenser
*:when the heart is ill assayed
To try tasting, as food or drink.
A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
* 1606 , , I. vii. 32:
* South
(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
* 1597 , , V. iv. 47:
* Milton
(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
* 1590 , , V. i. 5:
The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
(archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
* 1658', But if (as some '''opinion ) King ''Ahasuerus'' were ''Artaxerxes Mnemon'' [...], our magnified ''Cyrus'' was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)
As nouns the difference between assay and opinion
is that assay is trial, attempt, essay while opinion is a belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.As verbs the difference between assay and opinion
is that assay is to attempt (something) while opinion is to have or express as an opinion.assay
English
Noun
(wikipedia assay) (en noun)- I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.
- This cannot be, by no assay of reason.
- Through many hard assays which did betide.
- With gold and pearl of rich assay .
- (Ure)
Verb
IV , The Sage to the Young Man, ll.5-8:
- When Saul cam to Jerusalem he assayde to cople hymsilfe with the apostles, and they wer all afrayde of hym and beleved not that he was a disciple.
Derived terms
* assay office * assay mark * bioassay * immunoassay * radioimmunoassayAnagrams
*opinion
English
Noun
(en noun)- I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
- In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
- Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .
- Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -
- I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
- Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
- Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .
- This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.
- Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.
