All 10 Uses
assume
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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- "Can we for the moment," called Ford, "assume that he hasn't?"†
Chpt 1
- "And can we also assume," said Ford, "that he's going to be staying here all day?"†
Chpt 1
- He could only assume that he had just won.†
Chpt 1
- wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you—daft as a brush, but very very ravenous);†
Chpt 3
- For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost."†
Chpt 3
- "I can only assume," said Arthur, "that this is not the first-class compartment."†
Chpt 9
- " 'When you walk through the storm ...' " it whined nasally, " 'hold your head up high ...' " Zaphod screamed at it to shut up, but his voice was lost in the din of what they quite naturally assumed was approaching destruction.†
Chpt 17
- For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.†
Chpt 23
- Suddenly Arthur began to feel his apparently nonexistent scalp begin to crawl as he found himself moving slowly but inexorably forward toward the console, but it was only a dramatic zoom on the part of whoever had made the recording, he assumed.†
Chpt 28
- On the other side of it was a small pack of rather ugly men who they could only assume were the heavy mob of Magrathea.†
Chpt 31 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(assume as in: I assume it's true) to accept something as true without proof
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(2)
(assume as in: She assumed power) beginning to take power or responsibility
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(3)
(assume as in: She assumed a false identity) to take on (adopt, wear, strike a pose or appearance of) -- often while pretending or disguising
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(4)
(assume as in: assumed into heaven) to take up or receive someone into heaven
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)