Assume vs. Predict — What's the Difference?

To take for granted; suppose

To state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge

To take upon oneself (a duty or obligation)

To foretell something.

To undertake the duties of (an office)

(transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.

To take on (an appearance, role, or form, for example); adopt

To imply.

To pretend to have; feign

(intransitive) To make predictions.

To take over without justification; seize

To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.

To clothe oneself in; don

(obsolete) A prediction.

To take up or receive into heaven.

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

To make a supposition; suppose or believe

A prediction.

To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof

Make a prediction about; tell in advance;

To take on a position, duty or form

Indicate by signs;

To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate

To receive, adopt (a person)

To adopt (an idea or cause)

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.

To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

To receive or adopt.

To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.

To undertake, as by a promise.

Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof;

Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities;

Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;

Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;

Occupy or take on;

Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession;

Make a pretence of;

Christianity, obsolete; take up someone's soul into heaven;

Put clothing on one's body;