Considerable vs Assume - What's the difference?
considerable | assume |
Significant; worth considering.
Large in amount.
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, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
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, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= 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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, title= 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.
As an adjective considerable
is considerable.As a verb assume is
.considerable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
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Verb
(assum)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.}}
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.}}