calculate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: 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).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: calculates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calculating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: calculated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: calculated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: calculate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: calculate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: calculated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: calculate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: calculatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: calculated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: calculatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: calculates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calculateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: calculated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: calculate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: calculated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: calculate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: calculated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: calculate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: calculating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: calculated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places.
gloss: To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To plan; to expect; to think.
pos: verb
tags: US
dialectal
intransitive
examples: 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 clear space like a lawn.
gloss: To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
pos: verb
examples: to calculate or cast one’s nativity
A cunning man did calculate my birth.
gloss: To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
pos: verb
examples: to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people
[Religion] is […] calculated for our benefit.
gloss: To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
pos: verb
Synonyms: calculate
cipher
supputate
suppute
Related words: calculation
calculus
calculator
incalculable
Derived words: backcalculate
calculant
calculatable
calculated
calculate out
calculating
calculative
calculatory
miscalculate
outcalculate
overcalculate
precalculate
recalculate
retrocalculate
uncalculatable
undercalculate
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