Assert and Import

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• Commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country.
  • synonyms: importation
• An imported person brought from a foreign country.
  • usage: "the lead role was played by an import from Sweden"; "they are descendants of indentured importees"
  • synonyms: importee
• The message that is intended or expressed or signified.
  • usage: "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous"
  • synonyms: meaning, significance, signification
• A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
  • usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
  • synonyms: significance, implication
• Having important effects or influence.
  • usage: "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment than security"; "that result is of no consequence"
  • synonyms: consequence, moment

verb

• Bring in from abroad.
• Transfer (electronic data) into a database or document.
• Indicate or signify.
  • usage: "I'm afraid this spells trouble"
  • synonyms: spell

• (n.) That which a word, phrase or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.
• (v.t.) To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc.
• (v.t.) To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern.
• (v.i.) To signify; to purport; to be of moment.
• (n.) Importance; weight; consequence.
• (n.) Merchandise imported or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.
• (v.t.) To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify.