Rejoined vs Surmised - What's the difference?
rejoined | surmised |
(rejoin)
To join again; to unite after separation.
To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
* (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , Volume II,
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(archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(archaic): To answer to a reply.
(legal) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
(patent law , non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).
(surmise)
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1919 ,
Reflection; thought; posit.
To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.
As verbs the difference between rejoined and surmised
is that rejoined is (rejoin) while surmised is (surmise).rejoined
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(head)rejoin
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(en verb)page 60,
- Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:
- The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:
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- 'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'
Anagrams
*surmised
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(head)surmise
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(en noun)- surmises of jealousy or of envy
- No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises .
- The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.
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