reckon
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”).
Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon, charge”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Norwegian Nynorsk rekna (“to calculate”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
Inflected forms:
form: reckons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reckoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reckoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reckoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reckin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: recken
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: reckons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reckin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: recken
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
pos: verb
examples: then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain
I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
For all the king counted and pointed and reckoned, he could not find as much as a hair of them missing.
gloss: To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
pos: verb
examples: He was reckoned among the transgressors
For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises
gloss: To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
pos: verb
examples: […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
gloss: To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: I reckon he won't try that again.
I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.
The working life span of a passenger carriage, on average, is between 30 and 35 years, so a steady replacement takes place quite naturally. The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily reckoned, for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.
"Game over," Waddicor warns. "Look at the fuel gauge. Someone's forgotten to fill up." The heavily laden train has come from Freightliner's Maritime Terminal in Southampton's western docks. Waddicor reckons there might not be enough diesel in the tank to complete the journey.
gloss: To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
pos: verb
examples: There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back—and I will.
gloss: To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
pos: verb
gloss: An impression or opinion.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'
I wouldn't get much of an idea what the site was like until daylight but it was close to the cook fires and the food stalls and entertainment tents so, my reckons it was perfect.
I have beckoned vigorously & my reckons have passed into a vast sea of stones, rearing the strong feelings, the dawn of light emerged; surfacing the depths of the deep & the depths was beckoning coldly.
Here's my reckon on mass incarceration.
Derived words: chinny reckon
dead reckon
forereckon
misreckon
outreckon
overreckon
reckonable
reckoner
reckon for
reckoning
reckonmaster
reckon on
reckon out
reckon up
reckon upon
reckon with
reckon without
reckon without one's host
to reckon with
underreckon
unreckoned
unreckoning
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