Suppose
[sə'pəʊz] or [sə'poz]
Definition
(verb.) express a supposition; 'Let us say that he did not tell the truth'; 'Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?'.
Editor: Tod--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?
(v. t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
(v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
(v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.
(v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.
(n.) Supposition.
Inputed by Leonard
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Presume, conceive, apprehend, believe, imagine, consider, deem, think, judge, presuppose, conjecture, guess.[2]. Imply, assume, presuppose, take for granted.
v. n. Think, imagine, fancy, believe, surmise, conjecture, divine, guess, suspect, presume, OPINE, WEEN, RECKON.
Editor: Rudolf
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Assume, presume, believe, divine, deem, fancy, think, regard, conceive,imagine, imply, presuppose, conjecture, guess, conclude, judge, consider
ANT:Prove, demonstrate, substantiate, realize, disbelieve, negative, deny
Edited by Alta
Definition
v.t. to lay down assume or state as true: to imagine.—adj. Suppō′sable that may be supposed.—n. Suppō′sal (Shak.) supposition.—adj. Suppōsed′ (Shak.) counterfeit.—adv. Suppō′sedly according to supposition.—ns. Suppō′ser; Supposi′tion act of supposing: that which is supposed: assumption: presumption opinion.—adj. Supposi′tional implying supposition.—adv. Supposi′tionally.—adjs. Supposi′tionary hypothetical; Suppos′itive implying expressing or including a supposition.—adv. Suppos′itively.—ns. Suppos′itory (med.) a pill of any solid medicine in the form of a cone or cylinder intended for introduction into the rectum or other canal; Suppos′itum that which is supposed; Suppō′sūre supposition.
Checked by Basil
Examples
- There's nothing new, I suppose? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I suppose you are the only independent prince in the ?gean? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Which means, I suppose, that you are not quite clear about your case? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I know this in much the same way, I suppose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention? Plato. The Republic.
- I suppose they have not done trying on yet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I suppose it's smarter to use these rocks and build a good blind for this gun than to make a proper emplacement for it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The vestry was larger than I should have supposed it to be, judging from the outside only. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Having first seen him perfectly swallowed up in admiration of Mrs. Jellyby, I had supposed her to be the absorbing object of his devotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He touched his hat politely to the ladies, and remarked that he supposed they had never seen so many live Yankees before in their lives. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was well enough, he supposed? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She supposed she had a right to alter at her ease. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But it is not to be supposed, because the new thing succumbs to the old infections, that is the final condemnation of the new thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Secondly, A certain number of sides, which are supposed indifferent. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Sir, you have been entirely mistaken in supposing it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This airy young Barnacle was quite entertained by his simplicity in supposing for a moment that it was. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Supposing him wrapped up as those two passengers were, is there anything in his bulk and stature to render it unlikely that he was one of them? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Supposing he had been shot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Supposing then, for instance--any unlikely thing will do for a supposition--that you and your mother were to have a serious quarrel. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You are entirely wrong, sir, I said, in supposing that I speak from any prejudice against Sir Percival Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She was mistaken, however, in supposing that Edmund gave his father no present pain. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You saw him (as he supposes) just as he was passing through the door of communication. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The idea of motion necessarily supposes that of a body moving. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Volumnia, with her innocent little scream, supposes so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Therefore he sulkily supposes that the young man must come up into the library. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The explanation given in the text supposes the two harmonies to make up the number 8000. Plato. The Republic.
- If they cannot earn this by their labour, they must make it up, he supposes, either by begging or stealing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Theodore