Assumed vs Used - What's the difference?
assumed | used |
(assume)
Used in a manner intended to deceive; fictitious.
*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=22 Supposed or presumed.
(use)
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
(intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
That is or has or have been used.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
As verbs the difference between assumed and used
is that assumed is (assume) while used is (use).As adjectives the difference between assumed and used
is that assumed is used in a manner intended to deceive; fictitious while used is that is or has or have been used.assumed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Appleby
Derived terms
* assumed nameAnagrams
*used
English
Verb
(head)- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used .
- You used me!
- He used to live here, but moved away last year.
Adjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.