Verbalize vs Assert - What's the difference?
verbalize | assert | Related terms |
To speak or to use words to express.
(grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.
(computer science) an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
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To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)
As verbs the difference between verbalize and assert
is that verbalize is to speak or to use words to express while assert is to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.As a noun assert is
an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.verbalize
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Alternative forms
* verbaliseVerb
(en-verb)- Bill became tongue-tied and could not verbalize his thoughts in the presence of the girl he had a crush on.
assert
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}
- he would often assert his beliefs to us
- to assert one's authority
- Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work
- The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.
