väite — meaning in English
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English meaning
- allegation noun A claim or accusation made without proof that it is true.
- assertion noun A firm, confident statement, especially one made without offering proof.
- claim verb To state that something is true, often without having proved it yet.
- conjecture noun A guess or opinion formed without solid proof.
- contention noun A claim or position put forward and argued for, especially in a debate.
- proposition noun A suggestion or offer put forward for consideration, especially a business plan or deal.
- report verb To give an account of an event or pass on information that has been observed or heard.
- thesis noun A statement or claim put forward and supported by argument.
Senses
väite is used for these senses in English:
- allegation An assertion, especially an accusation, not necessarily based on facts.
- assertion Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.
- claim A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- conjecture (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
- contention Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
- proposition (countable, mathematics, philosophy) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
- report A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
- thesis (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
assertion — full definition
- noun A firm, confident statement, especially one made without offering proof.
- noun In computing, a statement in code that checks whether a condition is true at that point, used to catch bugs.