Word of the Day:
calculate
What It Means
To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
To plan; to expect; to think.
to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people
Calculate in Context
“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal’lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big...”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Latin calculātus, perfect passive participle of calculō (“to reckon, compute, calculate”, originally by means of pebbles) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from calculus (“a pebble”), further from calx (“limestone”, calc- in compounds) + -ulus (forms diminutives).
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