All 5 Uses of
assume
in
Oryx and Crake
- His father assumed he wanted to be comforted, which he did, and picked him up and hugged him.†
p. 18.4
- But even a castaway assumes a future reader, someone who'll come along later and find his bones and his ledger, and learn his fate.†
p. 41.2 *
- Snowman can make no such assumptions: he'll have no future reader, because the Crakers can't read.†
p. 41.2
- Assumption: that both arms are approximately the same length.†
p. 74.5
- Naturally they assume Crake must have gone back up to cloudland.†
p. 361.9
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