To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive.
He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
To cause, to result in.
To let be or do without interference.
To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
To transfer possession of after death.
To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
To produce leaves or foliage.
To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
Permission.