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Presume vs Thought - What's the difference?

presume | thought |

As verbs the difference between presume and thought

is that presume is to perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission while thought is past tense of think.

As a noun thought is

form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.

presume

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

(presum)
  • Don't make the decision yourself and presume too much.
  • With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission.
  • I wouldn't presume to tell him how to do his job.
  • To assume to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
  • * 2011 , John Patterson, The Guardian , 5 Feb 2011:
  • If we presume that human cloning may one day become a mundane, everyday reality, then maybe it's time to start thinking more positively about our soon-to-arrive genetically engineered pseudo-siblings.
  • To be presumptuous; with (on), (upon), to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with).
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 75:
  • Piliso then vented his anger on us, accusing us of lying to him. He said we had presumed on his hospitality and the good name of the regent.

    Quotations

    * Paw prints in the snow presume a visit from next door's cat. * Dr. Livingstone, I presume ?

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * presumed perpetrator

    Anagrams

    * ----

    thought

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia thought) (en noun)
  • Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts , and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts .}}
  • (uncountable) The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.
  • * (Paul Fix)
  • The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
  • A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
  • Derived terms

    * afterthought * collect one's thoughts * gather one's thoughts * food for thought * on second thoughts * perish the thought * thoughtful * thought leader * thoughtless * thought shower * thoughtlet

    Verb

    (head)
  • (think)