Request vs Suppose - What's the difference?
request | suppose |
Act of (l).
* Shakespeare
A formal (l) requesting something.
of being sought after.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
* Bible, Psalms cvi. 15
To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=15 To theorize or hypothesize.
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, volume=189, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (Bible), 2 (w) xiii. 32
*
To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
* 1752 , (Charlotte Lennox), (The Female Quixote)
To put by fraud in the place of another.
As verbs the difference between request and suppose
is that request is to express the need or desire for while suppose is .As a noun request
is act of (l).request
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will marry her, sir, at your request .
- Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
- He gave them their request .
Synonyms
* (act of requesting) asking, beseech, prayer, wish * (formal message requesting something) petition, postulation * (state of being sought after) demandDerived terms
* discovery request * request for admission * request for productionSynonyms
* (to express the need or desire for ): indicate, pray, wish * (to ask somebody to do something ): ask, bespeak, call forSee also
* * (wikipedia "request")External links
* * *Anagrams
*suppose
English
Verb
(suppos)citation, passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose .}}
David Cox
Celebrity rules even Hawking's universe, passage=Just what is supposed to be wrong with the pursuit of fame is not always made clear. Plato disapproved of competition for praise on the grounds that it would tempt the great to bend to the will of the crowd. It is hard to argue with that, and social degradation remains a fear.}}
- How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
- Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.
- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
- Purpose supposes foresight.
- One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.
