Suppose vs Thunder - What's the difference?
suppose | thunder | Related terms |
To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
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, title= To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (Bible), 2 (w) xiii. 32
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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.
The sound caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge.
A sound resembling thunder; especially, one produced by a jet airplane in flight.
A deep, rumbling noise.
An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
* Prescott
(obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) The spotlight.
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.
(label) To make a noise like thunder.
(label) To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
(label) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
To produce something with incredible power
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Suppose is a related term of thunder.
As a verb suppose
is .As a noun thunder is
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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.
Synonyms
* assume (1,2) * See alsoDerived terms
* supposable * supposed to (idiom) * supposedlyStatistics
* English reporting verbs ----thunder
English
Noun
(wikipedia thunder)- Thunder ''is preceded by lightning.
- Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
- The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
Usage notes
* roll, clap, peal are some of the words used to count thunder.Derived terms
* thunder and lightning * thunderation * thunderbird * thunderbolt * thunderboomer * thunderbox * thunderclap * thundercloud * thunderhead * thunderous * thundersquall * thunderstorm * thunder thighsSee also
* lightningVerb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.}}
