Assumption vs. Assume — What's the Difference?

A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof

To take for granted; suppose

The action of taking on power or responsibility

To take upon oneself (a duty or obligation)

The reception of the Virgin Mary bodily into heaven. This was formally declared a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in 1950.

To undertake the duties of (an office)

Arrogance or presumption.

To take on (an appearance, role, or form, for example); adopt

The act of taking to or upon oneself

To pretend to have; feign

The act of taking possession or asserting a claim

To take over without justification; seize

The act of taking for granted

To clothe oneself in; don

Something taken for granted or accepted as true without proof; a supposition

To take up or receive into heaven.

(Archaic) Presumption; arrogance.

To make a supposition; suppose or believe

(Logic) A minor premise.

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

Assumption(Christianity)The taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven in body and soul after her death, observed as a feast on August 15.

To take on a position, duty or form

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.

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

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.

To receive, adopt (a person)

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

To adopt (an idea or cause)

(logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

The taking of a person up into heaven.

To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.

A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.

To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

(rhetoric) Assumptio.

To receive or adopt.

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.

To undertake, as by a promise.

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof;

The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities;

The taking of a person up into heaven.

Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;

A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn;

Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;

A hypothesis that is taken for granted;

Occupy or take on;

The act of taking possession of or power over something;

Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession;

Celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church

Make a pretence of;

Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to;

Christianity, obsolete; take up someone's soul into heaven;

(Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended

Put clothing on one's body;

The act of assuming or taking for granted;