(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.
Theorize
Definition:
(v. i.) To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Current research may shed more light on this latter component and also provide the data for future psychoanalytic theorizing about character and personality.
(2) Wicker's (this issue) article on substantive theorizing outlines an approach to theory and research that helps communicate the structure and process of doing research on a complex area.
(3) It is theorized that the hippocampus (HPC) is necessary for generating and updating cognitive maps.
(4) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(5) It is theorized that the persistent infection of LCL may serve as a model in understanding the immune mechanisms which permit latent and chronic measles infection in man.
(6) Theory testing is distinguished from post hoc theorizing.
(7) It has been theorized that the legalization of providers of denture care other than dentists would make dentures more affordable to and therefore more often obtained by individuals of lower socioeconomic status.
(8) Spence advocates the gathering of brute data while denying or downplaying the epistemological value of theorizing and of interpretive understandings.
(9) This essay argues that gender is an irreducible category of clinical observation and theorizing, as crucial to the family therapy paradigm as the concept of "generation."
(10) Theorizing departing from prototypicality vs. script accounts of inference-making was critically evaluated, and a predictive script activation mechanism, relevant to lipreading skill, was suggested.
(11) In addition, analyses were performed to determine whether these theorized mechanisms represent stable within individual abilities or task specific capabilities.
(12) It has been theorized that vascular leakage of the protein-rich fluid leads to fibrosis caused by the accumulation of fibroblasts and macrophages.
(13) Historically, it has been theorized that the elevated oxidant sensitivity of G6PD-deficient erythrocytes arises as the direct consequence of decreased intracellular glutathione (GSH) concentrations.
(14) This article uses the current controversies in the British debate about health to illustrate the need to theorize, and therefore critically evaluate, the links between medicine and health policies, including health care policies.
(15) We theorize that the pattern of salient antecedents and consequences evoked by the core event are related to its judged desirability and likelihood by several adaptive principles, such that when a change is directly induced in one part of the belief system it produces predictable remote adjustments in other parts.
(16) Because endothelial stress fibers are theorized to be part of the cytoskeletal mechanism by which microvessels maintain their barrier function, the effect of these eicosanoids on stress fibers in bovine aortic endothelial cells was tested.
(17) A recent New Zealand study can be challenged on the grounds of inadequate theorization, questionable modelling and operationalization, and the ignoring of contradictory data.
(18) Recognized inadequacies of the aminoglycosides and the development of new antibiotics with significant activity against gram-negative bacilli are commonly cited reasons for the theorized decline of these compounds.
(19) These findings suggest that the two types of calcification do not have different prognostic values as theorized previously.
(20) Several errors of fact and interpretation in psychoanalytic theorizing about family relations are discussed.