Assess vs Assert - What's the difference?
assess | assert |
To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate
To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.
To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.
(computer science) an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
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
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To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
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.
(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)
As verbs the difference between assess and assert
is that assess is to determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate while assert is to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.As a noun assert is
(computer science) an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.assess
English
Verb
(es)- He assessed the situation.
- The referee assessed a penalty for delaying the game.
- A $10.00 late fee will be assessed on all overdue accounts.
- Once you've submitted a tax return, the Tax Department will assess the amount of tax you still owe.
Derived terms
* assessability * assessable * assessably * assessment * overassess * overassessment * unassessability * unassessable * unassessably * underassess * underassessmentAnagrams
*assert
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)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 assert one's authority
- Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work
- 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.