(n.) The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
(n.) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
(n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
(n.) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
(n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.
(n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assumption was also corroborated using reagents from a family in which DR3 and DQw2 were not found in the usually described linkage.
(2) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
(3) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(4) The findings support the assumption that changes in tubular Na+ transport probably participate in the changes of tubular amino acid transport in elderly individuals.
(5) Thus neither the presence of changes in RS-T segment or T wave nor the absence of QRS changes are mandatory for the diagnosis of SEMI; this invalidates the common assumption that the diagnosis is not justified unless these conditions are met.
(6) The rationale for this assumption seems logical because using all of the available accommodation is not sustainable without discomfort.
(7) It requires the assumption that there is no isotopic exchange between lactate and other compounds, yet experimental evidence indicates that lactate and pyruvate are in rapid equilibrium.
(8) Retrograde extrapolation is applicable in the forensic setting with scientific reliability when reasonable and justifiable assumptions are utilized.
(9) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(10) These findings lend new support to the assumption of the bifunctional property of IGFBP-3, which would have an effect outside the cell (binding of IGF in the medium) and another effect within cells or on the surface.
(11) The absence of proliferation control violates the general assumption that idiotypic interactions play an important role in immune regulation.
(12) Experiment 4 replicated these findings with children, indicating that the assumption of a correlation between word and visual complexity exists during the period of intense vocabulary growth.
(13) Mean open-loop gains calculated under this assumption were 1.64 for the CS system alone, 0.89 for the V system alone, and 6.59 for the interacting component between them.
(14) Yet the OBR’s list of basic assumptions in its 260-page report on the economic and fiscal outlook this week are not exactly controversial: the UK to leave the EU in 2019; slower import and export growth in the transitional period; a tighter migration regime.
(15) In conclusion, shape analysis and pattern recognition techniques can be used to forego dependence on the numerous assumptions and approximations required by traditional wall motion techniques, while providing performance characteristics that are similar to, and in some instances better than, traditional approaches.
(16) Published estimates of radiation dose to the gonads from 131I therapy of Graves' disease vary widely, largely because of differences in assumptions regarding the details of iodine kinetics.
(17) This reconstruction only requires very general assumptions, such as tracer-tracee indistinguishability and mass conservation; in particular it is independent of the glucose model structure, i.e., number of compartments and their interconnections.
(18) The authors expressed in 1984 the assumption that lithium is the drug of the phenomenon of suicidal action in affective disorders.
(19) Estimates of the number of eventual TA-AIDS cases to be seen are considerably more uncertain and require additional assumptions about the incubation distribution.
(20) Although epistatic selection cannot be completely ruled out, our results are better explained under the assumption of neutrality.
Proud
Definition:
(superl.) Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
(superl.) Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
(superl.) Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.
(superl.) Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
(superl.) Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
(2) "I am deeply proud of the achievements of the Met since I became commissioner.
(3) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(4) Proud of the way his forces behaved, he plans to frame the operational map of the night for his office wall.
(5) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
(6) So we were proud in 1997 to put forward the case for Britain’s first minimum wage.
(7) I’m proud of my team and of women’s football, it was an incredible performance,” he said.
(8) Social workers are blamed and vilified, but we should be proud of what we do Read more “We have six seats for 11 people,” says Sarah Grade*, a children and families social worker based in south London.
(9) Katwala says the old choice was between national pride on the one hand and acceptance that Britain had changed on the other: "Now we can be proud of the nation that has changed."
(10) Twitter and Facebook were filling up with pictures of proud, defiant Afghans holding up fingers stained with ink.
(11) We can be proud that there are people alive in Africa ... because of what we have done for people living thousands of miles away.
(12) In contrast, Redpath and Proud (Redpath, N. T., and Proud, C. G. (1989) Biochem.
(13) Both groups are served by about 17,000 restaurants, most of them proud of their contribution to what the city believes is the highest-quality and most diverse cuisine on the planet.
(14) Clearly, on this occasion we not only failed ourselves, but the university which we are so proud to represent.
(15) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
(16) The symbolism and the politics of the law are far more troubling and far more toxic than the actual substance of what the law will do itself.” That symbolism compelled store owners in Indianapolis to put up signs that say: “Instead of hate, we proudly serve everyone,” “This Hoosier still opposes the anti-LGBT license to discriminate,” and “Open for service!
(17) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
(18) But he mocked Mitchell when he told the BBC Sunday Politics: "He's never used it in my presence, but then again I'm very proud myself to be a pleb."
(19) Rudd's spectacular fall is a fate that the now former PM, a proud man who some say is driven by a quiet rage, will find difficult to accept – he shed tears in his farewell address .
(20) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.