Assert vs. Asset — What's the Difference?

To state or express positively; affirm

In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity. It is anything (tangible or intangible) that can be used to produce positive economic value.

To defend or maintain (one's rights, for example).

A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource

To put into action boldly; employ or demonstrate

A valuable item that is owned.

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

A spy working in their own country and controlled by a foreign power or an enemy.

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

(Accounting) The entries on a balance sheet showing all properties, both tangible and intangible, and claims against others that may be applied to cover the liabilities of a person or business. Assets can include cash, stock, inventories, property rights, and goodwill.

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to

The entire property owned by a person, especially a bankrupt, that can be used to settle debts.

(reflexive) 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.

A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.

(programming) To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.

(accounting) Any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet.

(electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.

(software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.

(computer science) an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.

(espionage) An intelligence asset.

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.

To maintain; to defend.

Any article or separable part of one's assets.

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.

A useful or valuable quality

State categorically

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true;

Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized;

Assert to be true;