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Christanford Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

assume/presume

What's the difference?
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w=presume&ls=a ]PRESUME[/url], verb : take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof You will see via the links, however, that each has other meanings.

  • w=presume&ls=a ]PRESUME[/url], verb : take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof You will see via the links, however, that each has other meanings.
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Where the same meaning is intended, there is no difference:

[url=http://www.onelook.com/?w=assume&ls=a]ASSUME[/url], verb : take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof ("I assume his train was late")

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Assume and presume usually have the same meaning in most circumstances. In the dictionary, they have slightly different meanings, but for every day speech. We don't really need to worry about this.

The big difference is in the following sentence:

He assumed the role of manager after the last manager quit.

We can not say the following:

He presumed the role of

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