Assume vs Construe - What's the difference?
assume | construe |
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)
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, 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.
To interpret or explain the meaning of something.
(grammar) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence.
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To translate.
As verbs the difference between assume and construe
is that assume is while construe is to interpret or explain the meaning of something.As a noun construe is
a translation.assume
English
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.}}
Synonyms
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* ----construe
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The world must construe''' according to its wits; this court must '''construe according to the law.
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- Thus, in a sentence such as:
(113) John considers [S Fred'' to be too sure of ''himself'']
the italicised Reflexive ''himself'' can only be construed''' with ''Fred'', not with ''John'': this follows from our assumption that non-subject Reflexives must have an antecedent within their own S. Notice, however, that in a sentence such as:
(114) ''John'' seems to me [S — to have perjured ''himself'']
''himself'' must be '''construed with ''John .