Suppose vs Vow - What's the difference?
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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.
A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
A declaration or assertion.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=
, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (ambitransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
* Bible, Eccl. v. 4
* Richard Baxter
To make a vow regarding (something).
To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.
In transitive terms the difference between suppose and vow
is that suppose is to theorize or hypothesize while vow is to make a vow regarding (something).As a noun vow is
a solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.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.
Synonyms
* assume (1,2) * See alsoDerived terms
* supposable * supposed to (idiom) * supposedlyStatistics
* English reporting verbs ----vow
English
Noun
(en noun)Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
Usage notes
* One normally makes'' or ''takes'' a vow, or simply ''vows (see below). * Commonly mentioned vows include those of silence'', ''obedience'', ''poverty'', ''chastity'', and ''celibacy . * 'to keep/pay/fulfill a vow' = to honor a vow * 'to break a vow' = to dishonor a vowVerb
(en verb)- When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it.
- We do not vow that we will never sin, nor neglect a duty (nor ought we to do so).
- The wronged woman vowed revenge.
- The rebels vowed to continue their fight.