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Assume vs Shoulder - What's the difference?

assume | shoulder |

As verbs the difference between assume and shoulder

is that assume is while shoulder is to push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.

As a noun shoulder is

(lb) the part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket .

assume

English

Verb

(assum)
  • To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Synonyms

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    shoulder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
  • #The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
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  • #*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder . The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
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  • #*:With just the turn of a shoulder' she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, ''Mount Vernon'', river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a ' shoulder .
  • #(lb) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
  • #A cut of meat comprised of the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
  • #The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
  • Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
  • A shelf between two levels.
  • #A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder.
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  • #The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
  • #*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • #*:the north western shoulder of the mountain
  • #The lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
  • #The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
  • #An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
  • (lb) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
  • The portion below the neck.
  • #(lb) The rounded portion of stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
  • #The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
  • #(lb) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
  • (lb) That which supports or sustains; support.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:In thy shoulder do I build my seat.
  • Derived terms

    * cold shoulder * hard shoulder * rub shoulders * shoulder bag * shoulder blade * shoulder check * shoulder-length * shoulder pad * shoulder season * shoulder to cry on * straight from the shoulder * you can't put an old head on young shoulders

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
  • * (rfdate) (Edmond Spenser)
  • As they the earth would shoulder from her seat.
  • * (rfdate) (Rowe)
  • ''Around her numberless the rabble flowed, / Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
  • To carry (something) on one's shoulders.
  • (figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
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  • To put (something) on one's shoulders.
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  • (figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
  • shoulder the blame
  • To place (something) against one's shoulders.
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  • To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
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  • To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
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