Suppose vs Shriek - What's the difference?

Suppose is a related term of shriek.

As verbs the difference between suppose and shriek

is that suppose is while shriek is to utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.

As a noun shriek is

a sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.

suppose

English

Verb

(suppos)

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 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?’}}

To theorize or hypothesize.

* , chapter=5

, title= 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 .}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-06, author= David Cox

, volume=189, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

* (Bible), 2 (w) xiii. 32

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.

To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.

Purpose supposes foresight.

* 1752 , (Charlotte Lennox), (The Female Quixote)

One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.

To put by fraud in the place of another.

Synonyms

* assume (1,2) * See also

Derived terms

* supposable * supposed to (idiom) * supposedly

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shriek

English

Noun

(en noun)

A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.

* Dryden

Shrieks , clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5

Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek ?

(UK) (slang) An exclamation mark.

Verb

To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.

* Shakespeare

It was the owl that shrieked .

* Dryden

At this she shrieked aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.

To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.

* Spenser

The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.

* Moore

She shrieked his name to the dark woods.

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