assume
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin assūmō (“accept, take”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sūmō (“take up, assume”).
Inflected forms:
form: assumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: assuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: assumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: assumed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: assume
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: assume
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: assumed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: assume
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: assumest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: assumed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: assumedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: assumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: assumeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: assumed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: assume
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: assumed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: assume
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: assumed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: assume
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: assuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: assumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
pos: verb
examples: We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.
Levelling of ME /irC/ and /urC/, which Orton assumes for the whole of the North (S. Durham §§411-13), has not taken place in Dent and S.We, where ME /urC/ remains (4:46).
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
gloss: To take on a position, duty or form.
pos: verb
examples: Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.
Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
gloss: To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate.
pos: verb
examples: He assumed an air of indifference.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
ambition assuming the mask of religion.
gloss: To receive, adopt (a person).
pos: verb
examples: The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
gloss: To adopt (an idea or cause).
pos: verb
Related words: assuming
assumption
assumptive
Derived words: assumable
assume room temperature
assume the mantle
assume the position
coassume
just assume
misassume
preassume
reassume
when you assume, you make an ass out of you and me
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