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单词 suppose
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suppose
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If you suppose you love your girlfriend, you may not be too sure. Suppose means to guess, or think, or imagine something without absolute certainty. Best hold off on the engagement ring until you know for sure!
Suppose also has the meaning of assuming something hypothetical for the sake of argument. You might ask, "Suppose someone breaks in while I'm away?" Suppose also has the more technical (and often legal) sense of something you must take for granted if some other condition is to happen. Your theory might suppose the victim was home by 8:00. In this last sense, suppose introduces something that's a precondition.
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He said that he is supposed to begin his rehabilitation program towards the middle or end of January.
Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017)
The company in this case, the U.S. official said, “did what it was supposed to do.”
Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017)
Why are we supposed to believe, as ironclad certainties, the judgment of intelligence officials who recently failed to anticipate the rise of Islamic State?
Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017)
1v expect, believe, or suppose
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
guess, imagine, opine, reckon, think
suspect
hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty
anticipate, expect
regard something as probable or likely
2v express a supposition
Syn|Hyper
say
speculate
talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion
3v to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, theorise, theorize
construct, reconstruct, retrace
reassemble mentally
develop, explicate, formulate
elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
etymologise, etymologize
construct the history of words
mature
develop and work out fully in one's mind
redevelop, reformulate
formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis
anticipate, expect
regard something as probable or likely
4v take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
presuppose
posit, postulate
take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
premise, premiss
take something as preexisting and given
assert, insist
assert to be true
assume, presume, take for granted
take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
5v require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
Syn|Hyper
presuppose
imply
suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
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