Difference between Swan and Assert

What is the difference between Swan and Assert?

Swan as a verb is to travel from place to place with no fixed itinerary or purpose. while Assert as a verb is to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

Swan

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (plural also 'swan') Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage. One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To travel from place to place with no fixed itinerary or purpose. To swear, declare

Example sentence: Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

Assert

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.to make true; to make equal to 1.

Example sentence: All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

We hope you now know whether to use Swan or Assert in your sentence.

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