Verb

(en verb)

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

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, author=Colin Allen , title=Do I See What You See? , volume=100, issue=2, page=168 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}

he would often assert his beliefs to us

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

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.

(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)

Verb

(en verb)

To imply or require.

This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.

* Allowing them to entail their estates. — .

* I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. — Shakespeare

(obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.

* To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. — Shakespeare

(obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

* Entailed with curious antics. — .