estimate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English estimat, borrowed from Latin aestimātus (“valuing, estimate”, only used in the ablative singular: "aestimātū..." (in valuing...)), from aestimō + -tus (“action noun-forming suffix”).
Base: aestimō
Affixes: -tus
Inflected forms:
form: estimates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æstimate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: estimates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: estimating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: estimated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: estimated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: æstimate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
pos: noun
examples: “They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”
gloss: A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
gloss: An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
pos: noun
examples: The desired norm estimate is now obtained from the identity... [referring to an earlier statement saying that a certain norm is less than or equal to a certain expression]
gloss: To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
pos: verb
examples: I estimate that I need 400 board feet of lumber to complete a job, and then order 350 because I do not want a surplus, or perhaps order 450 because I do not want to make any subsequent orders.
Higher real prices for durables are estimated to have reduced their consumption per capita by 1.09% in 1930, […]
gloss: To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
pos: verb
examples: It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.
It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.
Synonyms: appraise
assess
approximate
put
give
Derived words: ballpark estimate
cost estimate
counterestimate
Fermi estimate
costimate
guesstimate
guestimate
misestimate
reestimate
subestimate
estimable
estimatable
estimatingly
estimation
estimator
overestimate
underestimate
Translations:
lang: Bhojpuri
word: आकलन
roman: ākᵊlan
lang: Bulgarian
word: пресмятане
roman: presmjatane
lang: Bulgarian
word: приблизителна оценка
roman: priblizitelna ocenka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 估計 /估计
roman: gūjì
lang: Czech
word: odhad
lang: Danish
word: estimat
lang: Dutch
word: schatting
lang: Esperanto
word: taksi
lang: Estonian
word: hinnang
lang: Faroese
word: ætl
lang: Finnish
word: arvio
lang: French
word: estimation
lang: German
word: Schätzung
lang: German
word: Abschätzung
lang: Greek
word: υπολογισμός
roman: ypologismós
lang: Greek
word: εκτίμηση
roman: ektímisi
lang: Hindi
word: आकलन
roman: āklan
lang: Hindi
word: अनुमान
roman: anumān
lang: Hungarian
word: becslés
lang: Icelandic
word: áætlun
lang: Irish
word: meastachán
lang: Italian
word: stima
lang: Japanese
word: 推定
roman: suitei
lang: Khmer
word: វោលោកនៈ
roman: voulouka’na’
lang: Polish
word: oszacowanie
lang: Portuguese
word: estimativa
lang: Portuguese
word: cálculo
lang: Romanian
word: estimare
lang: Russian
word: оце́нка
roman: océnka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tuairmse
lang: Slovene
word: ocena
lang: Spanish
word: presupuesto
lang: Spanish
word: estimación
lang: Swedish
word: uppskattning
lang: Swedish
word: skattning
lang: Tagalog
word: taya
lang: Tagalog
word: tantiya
lang: Telugu
word: అంచనా
roman: añcanā
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تقدیر
roman: takdir
lang: Ukrainian
word: оці́нка
roman: ocínka
lang: Ukrainian
word: кошто́рис
roman: koštórys
lang: Vietnamese
word: ước lượng
lang: Welsh
word: amcangyfrif