What's the difference between let and suppose?

Let


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
  • (n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.
  • (n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Let
  • (v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
  • (v. t.) To consider; to think; to esteem.
  • (v. t.) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
  • (v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.
  • (v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
  • (v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
  • (v. i.) To forbear.
  • (v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (2) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (3) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
  • (4) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
  • (5) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
  • (6) Data are shown for both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, indicating that, in this respect, even the smallest average organ absorbed dose can be effective, particularly for high-LET radiation.
  • (7) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
  • (8) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
  • (9) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
  • (10) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
  • (11) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (12) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
  • (13) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
  • (14) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (15) And they have no intention of letting it out of their grasp.
  • (16) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
  • (17) "Getting a 95% loan to value mortgage lets you speculate on the expected house price increases a lot more than a 75% mortgage," he said.
  • (18) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
  • (19) How, in the name of all that is decent and honest in this world did we let this happen?
  • (20) This was determined by letting the cultured cells phagocytize Latex particles.

Suppose


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (2) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (3) In this paper we report sixteen new cases from Europe and North America, suggesting that Kabuki make-up syndrome may be more common outside of Japan than supposed.
  • (4) But I suppose really we’ve just got to look to next Sunday.
  • (5) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (6) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.
  • (7) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
  • (8) An angle of 40 degrees or more was supposed to be a pathological kyphosis.
  • (9) We support the view that catalysis by metalloenzymes may be a reflection of the chemistry of the metal ion itself as a Lewis acid, and that perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on supposed special characteristics (such as strains, "entasis") of the enzyme-metal ion association.
  • (10) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
  • (11) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
  • (12) Functional reorganization of interconnections between the limbic and thalamo-cortical brain structures is supposed to underly phenomena observed.
  • (13) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
  • (14) It is supposed that the stimulating effect of lactate with NAD+ on the mitochondria respiration is not so much a result of the membrane-damaged action as a result of oxidation of lactate dehydrogenase reaction products: phosphorylative oxidation of pyruvate and nonconjugated oxidation of NADH.
  • (15) The Financial Services Authority is meant to be the City's watchdog but "devastating" internal documents reveal it has secretly co-ordinated high-level lobbying strategies with the industry it is supposed to police.
  • (16) The relaxation achieved by rhythmic photoacoustic effects with the help of the device pre-supposes the regulation of the patient's respiration.
  • (17) It is, I suppose, a form of "participant-observation," but the participation involves developing an overall strategic approach to the community's perceived problems.
  • (18) It is supposed that only a small degree of training prevents the decrease of heart enlargement, heart hypertrophy and higher performance ability.
  • (19) After they were shuttered, they were supposed to be replaced by community outreach programs.
  • (20) The Great Garuda development that was supposed to take flight from that dike could be grounded even longer.

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