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Assert vs Purport - What's the difference?

assert | purport |

As nouns the difference between assert and purport

is that assert is (computer science) an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true while purport is import, intention or purpose.

As verbs the difference between assert and purport

is that assert is to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively while purport is to convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).

assert

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computer science) an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , 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)

    • Synonyms

    * affirm * asseverate * aver

    Related terms

    * assertion * assertive

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    purport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
    • He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
  • To intend.
    • He purported to become an international man of affairs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • import, intention or purpose
  • * 1748 ,
    • My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
  • * 1843 , '', book 4, chapter I, ''Aristocracies
    • Sorrowful, phantasmal as this same Double Aristocracy of Teachers and Governors now looks, it is worth all men’s while to know that the purport of it is, and remains, noble and most real.
  • * 1939 ,
    • A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport .
  • (obsolete) disguise; covering
  • * Spenser
    • For she her sex under that strange purport / Did use to hide.

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