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assume | derivation |

As a verb assume

is .

As a noun derivation is

diversion.

assume

English

Verb

(assum)
  • To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=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.}}
  • To take on a position, duty or form.
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  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
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  • *: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.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=(Nathan Rabin)
  • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=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.}}
  • To take on in appearance; to adopt (a feigned attribute, etc.).
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
  • *(Beilby Porteus) (1731-1809)
  • *:ambition assuming the mask of religion
  • To receive or adopt.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
  • To adopt an idea or cause.
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    derivation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
  • The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
  • The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root.
  • The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
  • That from which a thing is derived.
  • That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
  • (mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
  • (medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
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