0 present participle of assume
2 to pretend to have a different name or be someone you are not, or to express a feeling falsely:
During the investigation, two detectives assumed the identities of antiques dealers.
He assumed a look of indifference but I knew how he felt.
3 to take or begin to have responsibility or control, sometimes without the right to do so, or to begin to have a characteristic:
She was young and she was wearing student-type clothes so I assumed she was studying here.
There was a knock at the door. Now Jan knew her mother had promised to visit, so she assumed it was her.
They were chatting quite amiably on the phone last night so I assumed everything was okay.
I assumed things had gone well for him as he had a big grin on his face.
In addition, many of the primitive parsers can be simplified by assuming that the functions representing parsers and the functions representing success continuations are curried.
Significance values were assigned to variance components based on 1000 random permutations of individuals, assuming no genetic structure.
The transition radiation parameter s are calculated assuming a given current for the bunch.
