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Offer vs. Suggest

Offer and Suggest Definitions

Offer

To present for acceptance or rejection; proffer
Offered me a drink.

Suggest

To offer for consideration or action; propose
Suggest things for children to do.
Suggested that we take a walk.

Offer

To put forward for consideration; propose
Offer an opinion.

Suggest

To express or say indirectly
The police officer seemed to be suggesting that the death was not an accident.

Offer

To present in order to meet a need or satisfy a requirement
Offered new statistics in order to facilitate the decision-making process.

Suggest

To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply
A silence that suggested disapproval.
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Offer

To present as an act of worship
Offer a prayer.

Suggest

To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke
A cloud that suggests a mushroom.
A ringlike symbol suggesting unity.

Offer

To propose as payment; bid
Offered only half what I was asking for the car.

Suggest

To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand
Such a crime suggests apt punishment.

Offer

To make available; afford
The situation offers us the opportunity to learn more.

Suggest

(transitive) To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?
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Offer

To present for sale
Those boots are being offered at half price.

Suggest

(transitive) To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something).
The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.

Offer

To provide; furnish
A hotel that offers conference facilities.

Suggest

(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it
He suggests that we celebrate with dinner at Bellissimo.
He suggests our celebrating with dinner at Bellissimo.
The guidebook suggests that we visit the local cathedral, which is apparently beautiful.

Offer

To exhibit readiness or desire (to do something); volunteer
Offered to carry the packages.

Suggest

To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
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Offer

To engage in; put up
Partisans who offered strong resistance to the invaders.

Suggest

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.

Offer

To threaten
Offered to leave without them if they didn't hurry.

Suggest

To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

Offer

To produce or introduce on the stage
The repertory group is offering two new plays this season.

Suggest

To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested.

Offer

To present an offering in worship or devotion.

Suggest

To inform secretly.

Offer

To make an offer or proposal, especially of marriage.

Suggest

To make suggestions; to tempt.
And ever weaker grows through acted crime,Or seeming-genial, venial fault,Recurring and suggesting still.

Offer

To present itself
"This plan was dropped, because of its risk, and because a better offered" (T.E. Lawrence).

Suggest

Make a proposal, declare a plan for something

Offer

(Baseball) To swing at a pitch. Used of a batter.

Suggest

Imply as a possibility;
The evidence suggests a need for more clarification

Offer

The act of offering
An offer of assistance.

Suggest

Drop a hint; intimate by a hint

Offer

Something, such as a suggestion, proposal, bid, or recommendation, that is offered
Did you accept his offer for the car?.

Suggest

Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine;
Tetracycline is indicated in such cases

Offer

(Law) A proposal that if accepted constitutes a legally binding contract.

Suggest

Call to mind or evoke

Offer

The condition of being offered, especially for sale
Thousands of bushels of wheat on offer.

Offer

A proposal that has been made.
What's in his offer?
I decline your offer to contract.

Offer

Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
His offer was $3.50 per share.

Offer

(legal) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
His first letter was not a real offer, but an attempt to determine interest.

Offer

(used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off

Offer

(intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
She offered to help with her homework.

Offer

(transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
Everybody offered an opinion.

Offer

(transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
He offered use of his car for the week.
He offered his good will for the Councilman's vote.

Offer

(transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.

Offer

To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.

Offer

(transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
I offered twenty dollars for it. The company is offering a salary of £30,000 a year.

Offer

(intransitive) To happen, to present itself.

Offer

(obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.

Offer

(transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive or defensive way; to threaten.
To offer violence to somebody
The peasants offered no resistance as they were rounded up.

Offer

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; - often with up.
Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices.

Offer

To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage.
I offer thee three things.

Offer

To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.

Offer

To attempt; to undertake.
All that offer to defend him.

Offer

To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.

Offer

To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.

Offer

To present itself; to be at hand.
The occasion offers, and the youth complies.

Offer

To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; - used with at.
He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.
I will not offer at that I can not master.

Offer

The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance.

Offer

That which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid.
When offers are disdained, and love denied.

Offer

Attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball.

Offer

The verbal act of offering;
A generous offer of assistance

Offer

Something offered (as a proposal or bid);
Noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds

Offer

A usually brief attempt;
He took a crack at it
I gave it a whirl

Offer

Make available or accessible, provide or furnish;
The conference center offers a health spa
The hotel offers private meeting rooms

Offer

Present for acceptance or rejection;
She offered us all a cold drink

Offer

Agree freely;
She volunteered to drive the old lady home
I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it

Offer

Put forward for consideration;
He offered his opinion

Offer

Offer verbally;
Extend my greetings
He offered his sympathy

Offer

Make available for sale;
The stores are offering specials on sweaters this week

Offer

Propose a payment;
The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting

Offer

Produce or introduce on the stage;
The Shakespeare Company is offering `King Lear' this month

Offer

Present as an act of worship;
Offer prayers to the gods

Offer

Mount or put up;
Put up a good fight
Offer resistance

Offer

Make available; provide;
Extend a loan
The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages

Offer

Ask (someone) to marry you;
He popped the question on Sunday night
She proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months
The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman

Offer

Threaten to do something;
I offered to leave the committee if they did not accept my proposal

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