Word Finder - assume

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To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof

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We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.

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To take on a position, duty or form

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Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.

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To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate

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He assumed an air of indifference

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To receive, adopt (a person)

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To adopt (an idea or cause)

Pete will assume I can take care of you.

Alex had always taken care of his family, but was it irresponsible to assume he always would?

You're too smart to assume anything.

I assume you're the one responsible for the new look.

He was ready to assume his position as head of the house.

I'm not upset for the reason you assume I am!

She wouldn't assume anything.

I assume that's where I'm going.

Until we can prove Cleary isn't Byrne, let's assume he is.

History seems to assume that this force is self-evident and known to everyone.

I assume you being so warm is a wolf thing?

You can influence anything, Tim, so I assume this is your idea and your window.

Instead, they had talked about the house and how she would assume responsibilities.

Since it's your first time, I assume you want to know if it will be painful.

Further, assume the best job pays the most and is the most fun, and the worst job pays the least and is the least fun.

I shall assume that she has the normal child's capacity of assimilation and imitation.

I assume it's not a woman's place at the Council.

I can only assume the powder you found in my pocket was powdered sugar.

Did he trust her or assume she knew better than to run?

Was she encouraging Alex to assume a paternal role, or was she merely old-fashioned enough to think that men and women had specific roles?

Assume this is the last day of your life, since it might really be for both of us.  What one thing would you have done if you knew it was your last day?

Maybe that was why he was in such a hurry to assume husbandly duties as well.

Men uniting in these combinations always assume such relations toward one another that the larger number take a more direct share, and the smaller number a less direct share, in the collective action for which they have combined.

I've made arrangements to have anyone watching me assume they're going with me to Colorado, he said as he rose.

First, it would be tempting to assume the person hauling manure can only do that, and if that job disappeared he would have no useful skills.

Those who support this view generally speak of the stress as " Maxwell's stress," and assume its value to be B 2 /87r.

Whenever I look at my watch and its hands point to ten, I hear the bells of the neighboring church; but because the bells begin to ring when the hands of the clock reach ten, I have no right to assume that the movement of the bells is caused by the position of the hands of the watch.

I assume she knew she'd need something from me, except she had no idea who I was when we met again.

Alex was willing to assume one of those duties long before they were engaged.

The rivers when they debouch from the 'mountains assume an eastern trend in their effort to reach the sea.

It is safe to assume that the original draft of this, afterwards enlarged by his pupil, Alfric Bata, was by Alfric, and represents what his own scholar days were like.

The more closely it is confined the greater is the pressure set up by a small part of the charge burning, and the more completely will the explosion of the remainder assume the detonating form.

This points, we may here assume, to the Nero redivivus legend, which could not have arisen for a full generation after Nero's death, and the assumption receives large confirmation from the most probable interpretation of the enigmatical words, xiii.

I assume that these were just general comments you were making and not directed at me.

Santa Anna took advantage of the situation to assume the presidency.

Several revisions of the text exist, the later of which present such striking agreement with the later Wycliffite version that we shall not be far wrong if we assume that they were made use of to a considerable extent by the revisers of this version.

The governor and council appoint all judicial ' The constitution of 1776 provided that the Congress which framed it " assume the name, power and authority of a House of Representatives "; that said house choose twelve persons to be " a distinct and separate branch of the legislature by the name of a Council that the Council appoint a president; that civil officers for the colony and for each county (except clerks of court, county treasurers and recorders) should be appointed by the two houses; and that " if the present unhappy dispute with Great Britain should continue longer than this present year, and the Continental Congress give no instruction or direction to the contrary, the Council be chosen by the people of each respective county in such manner as the Council and House of Representatives shall order."

Our proposed ban on bovine offal for human consumption would not affect these uses, I assume.

Options include the serving of an Urgent Works Notice, Compulsory Purchase, or the establishment of a Trust to assume ownership.

If so, the JRE will assume from that point on that the MIME type supports the charset parameter and will not check again.

The seat cushions are designed to keep the pelvis straight thus encouraging the spine to assume its natural S shape.

Assume that the mixing takes place in the vapor phase.

It would be a mistake to assume that they all portend disaster.

While every care is taken in compiling this publication, the publishers cannot assume responsibility for any effects arising therefrom.

And why would it lead you to, " assume bearings pukka "?

Heck its just a different modulation scheme, I would assume their content transmission system can be easily retooled at the output.

Further, lets assume you don't know the pcode of bovine rhodopsin in the database.

We can only assume it had something to do with Peter looking like a circus ringmaster.

In point of international law, its existence may be said to date from Dec. I 1918, when the Prince-Regent Alexander of Serbia formally complied with the invitation of the Yugoslav National Council to assume the regency over the sister provinces also.

Why should we assume that it will be able to escape the moulding by environment (once its evoking cause is removed) to which, according to Lamarck's first law, all parts of organisms are subject ?