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Based on the base word definitions: as·sume. əˈso͞om. verb. suppose to be the case, without proof. "you're afraid of what people are going to assume about me"
A corollary to this idea, and in some ways the opposite, is when something is defined by/as itself. A lot of times you will find this in bad dictionaries when the definition of a word refers to a word whose definition refers to the original word. I am wondering if there is a word to describe this phenomenon.
a suffixal use of wise - in adverbs denoting manner, position, direction, reference, etc.: counterclockwise; edgewise; marketwise; timewise. To simplify this definition, you can think of -wise as "in the direction of", "in the manner of" or "with regard to", depending on the situation. The sentence you provided falls obviously in the third case.
The second definition in JoeBright's answer is correct: thot is an acronym that stands for "That Ho Over There." The word has a negative connotation and is such sometimes used as an affectionate insult to close friends, but is almost always used to describe women.
A complication is that the definition of graph in advanced mathematics is much broader: 'In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a graph is a structure amounting to a set of objects in which some pairs of the objects are in some sense "related."
Pom: British person): Australian from 1912. contraction of pomegranate, rhyming slang for immigrant (“imme-granate”). The older term of Jimmy Grant, meaning immigrant, became Pommy Grant as the Australian sun allegedly turned immigrants′ skin pomegranate red. An acronym for “Prisoner of Mother England”.
empirical: Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic. Taking your example, checking the format of an email address is done by logic, to see if you have <something>@<something>.<xxx> format. But, you cannot logically tell by looking at the string that it is a genuine email address.
At the University of Missouri at Rolla, Gerald Cohen, a professor of foreign languages currently at work on a slang dictionary, has another theory. He notes the cant lammas in Eric Partridge's Dictionary of the Underworld, the lingo of costermongers in London around 1855, alternatively spelled nammou, meaning ''to depart, esp. furtively'' and ...
Manuals may also provide conceptual information, such as design theory. Some "all-in-one" manuals are comprehensive enough to include information that would otherwise be found in separate guides or instructions, such as usage scenarios, diagnostic procedures, installation instructions, etc.
Prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove. OxfordDictionaries.com. A simple google search shows that to refute a myth is indeed actually used widely enough. It is also used in books, as seen in this Google Ngram Viewer (which also shows how the phrase compares with the more popular to debunk a myth).