presuming
present participle ofpresume
| 单词 | presuming |
| 释义 | presuming present participle ofpresume presume verb uk/prɪˈzjuːm/us/prɪˈzuːm/presumeverb(BELIEVE)C1[T] tobelievesomething to betruebecause it is verylikely,althoughyou are notcertain: [+ (that)]I presume(that)they're not coming, since they haven'trepliedto theinvitation. [+ speech]You are Dr Smith, I presume? "Are wewalkingto thehotel?" "I presumenot/so." [+ obj + adj]The boat'scaptainismissing, presumeddead(= it isbelievedthat he isdead). In Britishlaw, you are presumedinnocentuntil you areprovedguilty. [+ obj + to infinitive]Theuniverseis presumedtocontainmany otherplanetswith someformoflife.
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
presumeverb(BE RUDE)[I] to do somethingalthoughyouknowthat you do not have arightto do it: [+ to infinitive]I wouldn't presumetotellyou how to doyourjob, but shouldn't thispiecego there? I don'twishto presume(= make asuggestionalthoughI have norightto), but don't youthinkyou shouldapologizeto her? He presumesonher goodnature(=takesunfairadvantageof it). Rude and cheeky
Examplesofpresumingpresuming In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Presumingthat the new stimuli will be more discriminable by our subjects, we will move on to the critical test of our hypothesis. From theCambridge English Corpus The problem is inpresumingthat this is the fundamental order of things. From theCambridge English Corpus Presumingthese to be dead, we examine their effect in the section on closure. From theCambridge English Corpus Mathematical models,presumingunitary magical number limitations typical for college students, generate the published data accurately (mean error 2.7%). From theCambridge English Corpus Conclusivelypresumingthem to be different might seem nonsensical. From theCambridge English Corpus He ispresumingthat the first speaker's prediction is based on her self-declared ability to read, and thus know about, his thoughts. From theCambridge English Corpus I conclude by suggesting ways of testing, not justpresuming, the scope and coherence of these discursive realms that we know are so important. From theCambridge English Corpus Protectionism is paternalistic, de-contextualises the child bypresuminghe or she has an inherent 'nature', and denies the child a voice. From theCambridge English Corpus But there are no theoretical or empirical grounds forpresumingthat it is a reasonable assumption. From theCambridge English Corpus This journal will include the publication both of replications and of negative notes (presumingthat the negative notes are justified). From theCambridge English Corpus Presumingthat the curve of the fingerboard is increased to match, stopping adjacent strings with the same finger (barring) is easier. From theCambridge English Corpus Here we have the metropolitan scholarpresumingto tell the nationalist leaders that he understands these realities better than they. From theCambridge English Corpus This is to avoidpresuminga discourse has power just from an observer's and\\or its authors' conviction that it coheres. From theCambridge English Corpus Our ignorance of their service notwithstanding, it would not bepresumingtoo much to assume that these secretaries were important members of the governor's household. From theCambridge English Corpus In society and politics we can acknowledge the force of existing arrangements,presumingin favor of the status quo. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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