Suspect vs Dispute - What's the difference?
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To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
* Milton
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, title= To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
To believe (someone) to be guilty.
To have suspicion.
(obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
* (rfdate) (John Milton):
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(nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
* 2004 , Will Nickell, letter to the editor of Field & Stream , Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005),
An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
* Milton
Contest; struggle; quarrel.
To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
* Bancroft
To strive or contend about; to contest.
* Prescott
(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between suspect and dispute
is that suspect is to imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof while dispute is .As a noun suspect
is a person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.As an adjective suspect
is viewed with suspicion; suspected.suspect
English
Verb
(en verb)- to suspect the presence of disease
- From her hand I could suspect no ill.
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Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected , but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
- to suspect the truth of a story
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* (imagine or suppose to be true) imagine, suppose, think * (sense) distrust, doubt * (believe to be guilty) accuse, point the finger atNoun
(wikipedia suspect) (en noun)- Round up the usual suspects.'' — ''Casablanca
Adjective
(en adjective)- What I can do or offer is suspect .
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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- Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.
Synonyms
* (viewed with suspicion) dodgy (informal), doubtful, dubious, fishy (informal), suspiciousAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----dispute
English
(wikipedia dispute)Noun
(en noun)- Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .
- (Defoe)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(disput)- Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
- to dispute assertions or arguments
- to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
- to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
- Dispute it [grief] like a man.