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Ensure vs. Assert — What's the Difference?

Ensure vs. Assert — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ensure and Assert

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Ensure

Ensure is an American brand of nutritional supplements and meal replacements manufactured by Abbott Laboratories. A 237-ml (8-fl oz) bottle of Ensure Original contains 220 calories, six grams of fat, 15 grams of sugar, and nine grams of protein.

Assert

To state or express positively; affirm
Asserted his innocence.

Ensure

To make sure or certain; insure
Our precautions ensured our safety. See Usage Note at assure.

Assert

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

Ensure

(transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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Assert

To put into action boldly; employ or demonstrate
Asserted her independence.

Ensure

(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.

Assert

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
He would often assert that there was life on other planets.

Ensure

To make sure. See Insure.

Assert

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
To assert one's authority
Salman Rushdie has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work.

Ensure

To betroth.

Assert

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
To assert our rights and liberties

Ensure

Make certain of;
This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us
Preparation will guarantee success!

Assert

(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.
Since going to therapy, I've found it much easier to assert myself.

Ensure

Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;
He verified that the valves were closed
See that the curtains are closed
Control the quality of the product

Assert

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

Assert

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

Assert

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

Assert

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.
Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause.

Assert

To maintain; to defend.
That . . . I may assert Eternal Providence,And justify the ways of God to men.
I will assert it from the scandal.

Assert

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.

Assert

State categorically

Assert

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true;
Before God I swear I am innocent

Assert

Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized;
Women should assert themselves more!

Assert

Assert to be true;
The letter asserts a free society

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