Assumption vs. Claim

Assumptionnoun

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.

‘His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.’;

Claimnoun

A demand of ownership made for something.

‘a claim of ownership’; ‘a claim of victory’;

Assumptionnoun

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.

‘Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.’;

Claimnoun

The thing claimed.

Assumptionnoun

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

Claimnoun

The right or ground of demanding.

‘You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.’;

Assumptionnoun

(logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

Claimnoun

A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.

‘The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.’;

Assumptionnoun

The taking of a person up into heaven.

Claimnoun

A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

‘Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.’;

Assumptionnoun

A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.

Claimnoun

(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.

Assumptionnoun

(rhetoric) Assumptio.

Claimverb

To demand ownership of.

Assumptionnoun

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

‘The assumption of authority.’;

Claimverb

To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

Assumptionnoun

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.

‘This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of death to the resurrection of the body.’; ‘That calm assumption of the virtues.’;

Claimverb

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

Assumptionnoun

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

‘Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong.’;

Claimverb

(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

Assumptionnoun

The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

Claimverb

(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

Assumptionnoun

The taking of a person up into heaven.

Claimverb

(archaic) To proclaim.

Assumptionnoun

a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn;

‘on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play’;

Claimverb

(archaic) To call or name.

Assumptionnoun

a hypothesis that is taken for granted;

‘any society is built upon certain assumptions’;

Claimverb

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

Assumptionnoun

the act of taking possession of or power over something;

‘his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba’; ‘the Nazi assumption of power in 1934’; ‘he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts’;

Claimverb

To proclaim.

Assumptionnoun

celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church

Claimverb

To call or name.

Assumptionnoun

audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to;

‘he despised them for their presumptuousness’;

Claimverb

To assert; to maintain.

Assumptionnoun

(Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended

Claimverb

To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

‘We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.’;

Assumptionnoun

the act of assuming or taking for granted;

‘your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted’;

Claimnoun

A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

Assumptionnoun

a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof

‘they made certain assumptions about the market’; ‘we're working on the assumption that the time of death was after midnight’;

Claimnoun

A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.

Assumptionnoun

the action of taking on power or responsibility

‘the assumption of an active role in regional settlements’;

Claimnoun

The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim.

Assumptionnoun

the reception of the Virgin Mary bodily into heaven. This was formally declared a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in 1950.

Claimnoun

A loud call.

Assumptionnoun

the feast in honour of the Assumption, celebrated on 15 August.

Claimnoun

an assertion of a right (as to money or property);

‘his claim asked for damages’;

Assumptionnoun

arrogance or presumption.

Claimnoun

an assertion that something is true or factual;

‘his claim that he was innocent’; ‘evidence contradicted the government's claims’;

Claimnoun

demand for something as rightful or due;

‘they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day’;

Claimnoun

an informal right to something;

‘his claim on her attentions’; ‘his title to fame’;

Claimnoun

an established or recognized right;

‘a strong legal claim to the property’; ‘he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate’; ‘he staked his claim’;

Claimnoun

a demand especially in the phrase

‘the call of duty’;

Claimverb

assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing;

‘He claimed that he killed the burglar’;

Claimverb

demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to;

‘He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter’; ‘Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident’;

Claimverb

ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example;

‘They claimed on the maximum allowable amount’;

Claimverb

lay claim to; as of an idea;

‘She took credit for the whole idea’;

Claimverb

take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;

‘the accident claimed three lives’; ‘The hard work took its toll on her’;

Claimverb

state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof

‘‘I'm entitled to be conceited,’ he claimed’; ‘not every employee is eligible to claim unfair dismissal’; ‘the Prime Minister claimed that he was concerned about Third World debt’;

Claimverb

assert that one has gained or achieved (something)

‘his supporters claimed victory in the presidential elections’;

Claimverb

formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)

‘if no one claims the items, they will become Crown property’;

Claimverb

make a demand for (money) under the terms of an insurance policy

‘the premiums are reduced by fifty per cent if you don't claim on the policy’;

Claimverb

call for (someone's notice and thought)

‘a most unwelcome event claimed his attention’;

Claimverb

cause the loss of (someone's life)

‘the attacks claimed the lives of five people’;

Claimnoun

an assertion that something is true

‘he was dogged by the claim that he had CIA links’;

Claimnoun

a statement of the novel features in a patent

‘the two patents based on his claims will be reconfirmed’;

Claimnoun

a demand or request for something considered one's due

‘the court had denied their claims to asylum’;

Claimnoun

an application for compensation under the terms of an insurance policy

‘he should make a claim on his house insurance for storm damage’;

Claimnoun

a right or title to something

‘they have first claim on the assets of the trust’;

Claimnoun

a piece of land allotted to or taken by someone in order to be mined

‘each of them was to be rewarded with a farm and a number of mining claims in the land’;