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(v)
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
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(transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
(n)
The belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
(adj)
Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
(intransitive) To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
(ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
(transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
(transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
To demand ownership of.
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
Supposed or presumed.
To collect normally separate things.
(transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
(transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
(transitive) To depict or describe vividly.
(transitive, ditransitive) To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
(transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
To assume the existence of; to postulate.
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
(transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
The imagination.
(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
(obsolete) That which is assumed; an assumption.
To start doing.
Alternative form of hypothesize. [(ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.]
(obsolete, idiomatic) To take as a hypothesis; to suppose (that).
(idiomatic, US, law enforcement) To turn away, with one's hands in a visible and unmovable position, so that one can be searched.
(intransitive, transitive) To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
Chiefly followed by by or with: to preoccupy (someone) in an emotional or mental way, so as to preclude other things.
(transitive) To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
To suppose an instance; to take as an example.
(transitive) To show to be probable.
(transitive) To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
To pass or go past without much interaction.
(transitive) To make ready for use.
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
(transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
Import, intention or purpose.
(transitive) To surpass in pretending.
(transitive) To pretend to be (a different person); to assume the identity of, especially when there is an intent to deceive.
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(intransitive) To act as president or chairperson.
(obsolete) To act with dignity; to act in a stately manner.
(idiomatic) To assume that everyone agrees that something is correct.
(ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
Alternative form of seigniorize. [(obsolete, intransitive) To preside, hold sway.]
To become the owner. [with of]
(transitive) To accept something without seeing evidence supporting it, by trust or confidence.
(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
(transitive, uncommon) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.
(obsolete) To calculate; to compute; to reckon; to suppute.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility.
(transitive) To assume jointly.
(idiomatic) To assume personal responsibility for a task or action.
(transitive) To worry or concern (someone) so as to distract them.
(idiomatic) To become haughty, to assume a pretentious manner.
(transitive, grammar) To make plural.
A taking on; that which is taken on; acquisition.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
(logic) The result of obversion.
(transitive) To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
(transitive, idiomatic) To accept something without seeing evidence supporting it, by trust or confidence.
Alternative form of impose. [(transitive) (archaic) To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.]
The amount of money levied for a service.