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[ verb ] have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming
Examples "The letter purports to express people's opinion" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)From the beginning of commercial recording , new discs purported to be indistinguishable from The Real_Thing have regularly been put in circulation . Related terms |
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[ verb ] propose or intend
Examples "I aim to arrive at noon" Used in print (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz_musicians , their aims , their problems - the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' - and seemed a promising vehicle , for the two men shared a common interest in jazz . |
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