Commence vs Conjecture - What's the difference?
commence | conjecture |
To begin, start.
* (William Shakespeare)
* (Oliver Goldsmith)
* , chapter=4
, title= To begin to be, or to act as.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
* Fuller
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a .
(formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
(mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally (l).
(obsolete) of signs and omens.
(formal) To ; to venture an unproven idea.
* South
As verbs the difference between commence and conjecture
is that commence is while conjecture is .commence
English
Verb
(commenc)- Here the anthem doth commence .
- His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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- We commence judges ourselves.
- I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.
Antonyms
* cease * stopconjecture
English
Noun
- I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
- The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
Synonyms
* * See alsoVerb
(conjectur)- I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
- Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.