different between purchase vs assume

English

Etymology

From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?t??s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t??s/
• Hyphenation: pur?chase

Noun

purchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)

1. The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

2. That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
3. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

4. (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)

   • I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i’ th’ purchase.

5. A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
   • 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords

     Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years’ purchase […]

6. (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.

   Synonyms: contact, grip, hold

7. The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
8. (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.

   Synonyms: foothold, support
9. (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

Derived terms

• purchase order
• repurchase

Translations

Verb

purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)

1. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

2. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

   • that loves the thing he cannot purchase
3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

   to purchase favor with flattery
4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
5. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.

6. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
   • 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.

7. To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

Synonyms

• (buy): procure

Derived terms

• purchasable
• purchasing agent
• purchasing power

Translations

Anagrams

• search up

English

Etymology

From Latin ass?m? (“accept, take”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + s?m? (“take up, assume”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, North America) IPA^(key): /??sju?m/
• (UK)
• (US)
• (US, Canada) (yod dropping) IPA^(key): /??su?m/
• (yod coalescence) IPA^(key): /???u?m/
• (Nigeria) IPA^(key): /??zu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Verb

assume (third-person singular simple present assumes, present participle assuming, simple past and past participle assumed)

1. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
2. To take on a position, duty or form
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
3. To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate
   • a. 1809,Beilby Porteus, sermon

     ambition assuming the mask of religion.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:assume.
4. To receive, adopt (a person)
5. To adopt (an idea or cause)

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:suppose

Related terms

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “assume”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Seamus, amuses

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sym/

Verb

assume

1. first-person singular present indicative of assumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of assumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of assumer
4. second-person singular imperative of assumer

Anagrams

• amuses, amusés, massue, muasse, suâmes, usâmes

Italian

Verb

assume

1. third-person singular present indicative of assumere

Latin

Verb

ass?me

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ass?m?

Portuguese

Verb

assume

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of assumir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of assumir