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"ESTIMATES" is a plural of: estimate. |
Date "ESTIMATES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
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Census | Data for the American Community Survey and Census 2000 Supplementary Survey are collected from a sample of housing units and used to produce estimates of the actual figures that would have been obtained by interviewing the entire population using the same methodology. Related terms: American Community Survey (ACS), Confidence interval (ACS and Census 2000 Supplementary Survey), Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (C2SS), Standard error (ACS). (references) |
Public Administration | Accounts presented annually to Parliament, showing the probable amount of expenditure on the several administrative departments for the current year. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: ESTIMATES |
| English words defined with "ESTIMATES": appraiser ♦ noncritical ♦ Prizer, puff up ♦ Rater ♦ To open the budget ♦ uncritical ♦ valuator. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ESTIMATES": Civil Service Estimates ♦ Geographic Update System in Support of Intercensal Estimates ♦ seasonally adjusted estimates ♦ Worklife estimates. (references) |
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 | NSSL's second Doppler Weather Radar, 15 miles west of Oklahoma City. Researchers used this radar and the Norman Doppler radar to study thunderstorms. Doppler radar gave better estimates of winds within storms than earlier radars. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | Rickey Schwieter, NRCS nutrient and pest management specialist in the Mark Twain Water Quality Project Office, estimates the yield in a cornfield. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |
 | 40,000 people are killed by snakebite every year according to conservative estimates ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. | ||
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Napoleon Bonaparte | The first qualification in a general is a cool head - that is, a head which receives accurate impressions, and estimates things and objects at their real value. He must not allow himself to be elated by good news, or depressed by bad. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Five millions is the most moderate of the approximate figures which the estimates of special science give. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Accurate estimates of these expenditures are not available. (references) | |
Population Estimates From the 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. (references) | ||
Methodological problems preclude precise estimates of the cost of ADHD to society. (references) | ||
Business | Figures for local production are estimates. (references) | |
These figures are based on informed industry estimates. (references) | ||
Figures represent the best estimates of the overall market. (references) | ||
Children | Morocco | However, other estimates are as high as 3 million. (references) |
Mexico | Persons With Disabilities Estimates of the number of persons with disabilities range from 2 to 10 million. (references) | |
Mexico | The DIF estimates that 16,000 children below the age of 17 are victims of some form of sexual exploitation. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Congo | An international human rights NGO estimates that there are approximately 1.5 million IDP's in the country. (references) |
Namibia | The UNHCR estimates that approximately 26,000 persons eligible for refugee status are residing within the country. (references) | |
Malawi | The majority of refugees reside at the Dzaleka camp, and the UNHCR estimates that approximately 200 new refugees arrived each month. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Source : Unofficial estimates. (references) |
India | The above data are unofficial estimates. (references) | |
Switzerland | Estimates are as high as $0.8 -1 billion. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iran | No estimates are available regarding the number of political prisoners. (references) |
Pakistan | AI estimates that at least 100 persons die from police torture each year. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Amnesty International (AI) estimates the number of political prisoners to be between 100 and 200. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Argentina | Other demographers in recent years have provided estimates of at most 450,000 persons. (references) |
Argentina | The INAI estimates that there are approximately 700,000 indigenous persons, most of whom reside in rural areas. (references) | |
Venezuela | In 1998, the last year for which estimates are available, they returned at least 15 groups averaging 100 Warao each. (references) | |
Minorities | Lebanon | The U.N. estimates that 18 percent of street children are Palestinian. (references) |
China | By some estimates, 250,000 Han have moved into the region annually in the last few years. (references) | |
Hungary | Roma constitute at least 5 percent of the population, with some estimates as high as 9 percent. (references) | |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | As of October 2001, DNP estimates growth for 2002 at four percent. (references) |
PERU | The government estimates annual obligations under the deal at about $300 million. (references) | |
CHILE | The Chilean government estimates that roughly 50,000 children between the ages of 6 and 14 work. (references) | |
Trade | Turkey | The GOT estimates that as a result of its accession to the European Customs Union, the average duty rate for imports from the European Union and EFTA countries has dropped from approximately ten percent to zero. (references) |
Brazil | Market estimates are that US$ 26 billion needs to be invested in the next three years, of which US$ 9 billion will be in electric power, US$ 7 billion in telecommunications; US$ 5 billion in transportation; and US$ 5 billion in the petroleum sector. (references) | |
Philippines | The Bangko Sentral estimates that about 65 percent of the $6.2 billion of outstanding loans from banks' foreign currency deposit units as of end-2000 were "hedged"--i.e., owed by exporters (34 percent), as well as by oil companies (six percent) and public utilities firms (25 percent) with automatic price adjustment mechanisms. (references) | |
Travel | France | May 2001 estimates of the Department of State for reasonable lodging and meal/incidental expenses for a business traveler are respectively $149 and $85 per day. (references) |
Women | Taiwan | One expert estimates that 7,000 rapes occur annually--10 times the number reported to the police. (references) |
Guinea | Domestic violence against women is common, although estimates differ as to the extent of the problem. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | The ILO estimates that 21,000 children are working as prostitutes in the country. (references) |
Dominican Republic | FENATRAZONA estimates that only 3 percent of the workers in the FTZ's are unionized. (references) | |
Ukraine | No reliable figures are available on the extent of the problem and estimates vary widely. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance. Cerberus is known to have had three heads, and some of the poets have credited him with as many as a hundred. Professor Graybill, whose clerky erudition and profound knowledge of Greek give his opinion great weight, has averaged all the estimates, and makes the number twenty-seven -- a judgment that would be entirely conclusive is Professor Graybill had known (a) something about dogs, and (b) something about arithmetic. |
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Chris Dodd | It's a simple enough question. The American people are going to pay for this. They'd like to have some idea. Don't tell me for a single second that the people at the Pentagon don't have some estimates here. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | The estimates for the service of the ensuing year will by my direction be laid before you. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, with estimates for the ensuing one, will as usual be laid before you. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | To effect the object of the act the officers of the Board of Engineers, with Commodore Bainbridge, were directed to prepare plans and estimates of piers sufficient to answer the purpose intended by the act. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This sum can, in my judgment, be now usefully applied to proposed improvements in our navy yards, and to new national works which are not enumerated in the present estimates or to the more rapid completion of those already begun. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Reasoned estimates have been presented of the pecuniary profits and local advantages which would result to different States and sections from its dissolution and of the comparative injuries which such an event would inflict on other States and sections. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I have reviewed their estimates and believe that the safety of the Nation will require the maintenance of an armed strength of this size for the calendar year that is before us. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Nevertheless, a new Administration must of necessity build on the spending and revenue estimates already submitted. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As a result, our timetable for withdrawal is more optimistic now than when we made our first estimates in June. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ESTIMATES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 78.97% of the time. "ESTIMATES" is used about 2,076 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 78.97% | 1,639 | 5,078 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 21.03% | 437 | 13,188 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,076 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ESTIMATES": seasonally adjusted estimates ♦ section of government estimates ♦ the estimates. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "ESTIMATES": over-estimates. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ESTIMATES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | begroting (budget, estimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оценка (appraisal, appraisement, assessment, esteem, evaluation, pronouncement, rating, valuation), оферта (offer, quotation, tender), бюджетни предвиждания. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | undertegne aftaler,kontrakter,tillægskontrakter og overslag;underskrive aftaler,kontrakter,tillægskontrakter og overslag (additions to contracts and estimates, to sign contracts), sæsonkorrigerede estimater (seasonally adjusted estimates), Kommissionen foejer hertil en udtalelse,der kan indeholde afvigende overslag (the Commission shall attach thereto an opinion which may contain different estimates), hver af Faellesskabets institutioner opstiller et overslag over sine udgifter (each institution of the Community shall draw up estimates of its expenditure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ramingen van begroting, begroting (budget, estimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | prezkonjekto (budget, estimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kausitasoitetut estimaatit (seasonally adjusted estimates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | estimations, propositions de dépenses, prévisions des dépenses, prévisions budgétaires, dépenses budgétées, crédits, budget prévisionnel, budget des dépenses. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schätzt (appraises, appreciates, cherishes, esteems). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάθε όργανο της Kοινότητος καταρτίζει κατάσταση των προβλεπομένων εξόδων του (each institution of the Community shall draw up estimates of its expenditure), υπογράφω συμβάσεις,τροποποιήσεις και προϋπολογισμούς δαπανών (additions to contracts and estimates, to sign contracts), η Eπιτροπή επισυνάπτει γνώμη η οποία δύναται να περιέχει αποκλίνουσες προβλέψεις (the Commission shall attach thereto an opinion which may contain different estimates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pótköltségvetés (bill of supply, supplementary estimates), póthitel (supplementary estimates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stima (appraisal, appreciation, cherishes, credit, esteem, esteems, estimate, estimation, evaluation, Gage, gauge, honor, honour, opinion, regard, respect, valuation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estimatesay cada uma das instituições da Comunidade elaborará uma previsão das suas despesas (each institution of the Community shall draw up estimates of its expenditure), assinar os contratos,os adicionais de contratos e orçamentos;assinar os contratos,os adicionais aos contratos e orçamentos (additions to contracts and estimates, to sign contracts), a Comissão juntará um parecer que pode incluir previsões divergentes (the Commission shall attach thereto an opinion which may contain different estimates). (various references) оценивает. (various references) presupuesto (budget, budgeting, estimate, estimation, implyed, presupposition, specifications). (various references) statsbudgeten, stat (establishment, staff, state). (various references) bütçe (budget, income, supply, the estimates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ESTIMATES": misestimates, overestimates, reestimates, underestimates. (additional references) | |
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"ESTIMATES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espinettes, estamate, estiate, estimae, estmate, estomate, estuates, nestmates, obtimates, optimates, reestimate, Settimane, stimate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ESTIMATES" (pronounced e"stumuts or e"stumā'ts) |
| 8 | e" s t u m u t s | guesstimates, underestimates. |
| 6 | -t u m u t s | intimates. |
| 5 | -u m u t s | animates, approximates. |
| 4 | -m u t s | climates, comets, helmets, hermits, limits, microclimates, plummets, summits. |
| 3 | -u t s | advocates, affidavits, affiliates, affricates, agates, aggregates, amulets, anklets, articulates, associates, audits, Babbitts, ballots, bandits, banquets, barbiturates, baronets, baskets, berets, bigots, billets, biscuits, blankets, bluebonnets, booklets, bracelets, brackets, branchlets, buckets, budgets, buffets, bullets, cabinets, carats, carpets, carrots, caskets, certificates, chariots, chestnuts, cheviots, chocolates, ciliates, circuits, closets, compatriots, composites, conduits, conglomerates, consulates, coordinates, correlates, covets, credits, crickets, culprits, deficits, degenerates, demerits, deposits, diets, digits, discredits, dockets, doctorates, droplets, edits, electorates, electromagnets, elicits, Emirates, ergots, exhibits, exits, eyelets, facets, faucets, favorites, ferrets, fillets, frigates, gadgets, garrets, gaskets, graduates, habits, hamlets, hatchets, helots, hornets, hypermarkets, idiots, illiterates, inaugurates, ingots, inhabits, inherits, inhibits, initiates, intermediates, interprets, invertebrates, islets, jackets, jesuits, junkets, laminates, lancets, laureates, leaflets, legates, limpets, maggots, magnets, markets, merits, microcircuits, midgets, millets, minutes, moderates, nonprofits, nuggets, nutlets, omelets, opiates, opposites, orbits, packets, palates, pallets, pamphlets, parrots, particulates, patriots, peanuts, pellets, perquisites, pickets, pickpockets, piglets, pilots, pirates, planets, platelets, plaudits, pockets, poets, portraits, posits, prelates, prerequisites, privates, profits, prohibits, prophets, puppets, quiets, quintuplets, rackets, racquets, requisites, revisits, rickets, riots, rivets, rockets, russets, secrets, sextuplets, silicates, snippets, sockets, solicits, spigots, spirits, starlets, supermarkets, surrogates, tablets, targets, tenets, thickets, tickets, toilets, trinkets, triplets, trumpets, turrets, undergraduates, unfortunates, units, violets, visits, wallets, wastebaskets, whats, wickets, widgets, zealots. |
| 8 | e" s t u m ā' t s | overestimates. |
| 6 | -t u m ā' t s | automates. |
| 4 | -m ā' t s | classmates, inmates, playmates, primates, roommates, schoolmates, shipmates, teammates. |
| 3 | -ā' t s | abbreviates, abdicates, accelerates, accommodates, accumulates, activates, aggravates, alienates, allocates, alternates, anticipates, appreciates, appropriates, arbitrates, aspirates, attenuates, birthrates, calculates, carbonates, castrates, celebrates, chordates, circulates, commemorates, communicates, compensates, complicates, concentrates, condensates, consolidates, contaminates, contemplates, cooperates, corroborates, culminates, cultivates, dedicates, delegates, deliberates, delineates, demonstrates, depreciates, designates, deteriorates, deviates, differentiates, discriminates, disintegrates, dissipates, distillates, dominates, donates, duplicates, educates, elaborates, elevates, eliminates, emigrates, enumerates, escalates, evaluates, evaporates, exacerbates, exaggerates, exonerates, expatriates, exterminates, fabricates, facilitates, fascinates, floodgates, fluctuates, formulates, frustrates, generates, gravitates, heavyweights, herniates, hesitates, hydrogenates, illuminates, illustrates, imitates, implicates, incorporates, inculcates, indicates, infuriates, integrates, interstates, intimidates, investigates, irritates, isolates, legislates, liquidates, locates, magistrates, magnates, mandates, manipulates, masturbates, Mithridates, mitigates, motivates, nameplates, necessitates, negotiates, nitrates, nominates, obligates, operates, orchestrates, originates, oscillates, overstates, oxalates, participates, penetrates, permeates, perpetuates, pollinates, pontificates, postulates, potentates, predicates, predominates, prognosticates, radiates, rebates, recapitulates, recreates, regulates, Rejuvenates, replicates, repudiates, resonates, reverberates, rotates, separates, simulates, speculates, stimulates, stipulates, subordinates, substantiates, substrates, sulphates, syndicates, terminates, tolerates, understates, validates, vertebrates, vindicates. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: steamiest. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-m-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: estimate, etatisms, meatiest, misstate, seamiest, teatimes. | |
-2 letters: easiest, estates, etatism, metates, metisse, misease, miseats, misseat, samites, siamese, statism, tamises, teatime. | |
-3 letters: easies, emesis, estate, maists, mattes, metate, misate, miseat, misset, samite, sesame, sestet, siesta, smites, states, steams, stimes, tamest, tasset, tassie, tastes, teases, testae, testes, testis, tmeses, tmesis, tsetse. | |
-4 letters: amies, amiss, asset, eases. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-m-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: estaminets, metathesis, streamiest. | |
+2 letters: guesstimate, maisonettes, martensites, metastasize, misestimate, reestimates, systematise, systematize. | |
+3 letters: aestheticism, astrometries, chastisement, dermatitises, domesticates, guesstimated, guesstimates, harvesttimes, intimateness, marquisettes, mastectomies, metastasized, metastasizes, misestimated, misestimates, misstatement, restimulates, steamfitters, systematised, systematises, systematized, systematizer, systematizes, teetotalisms, ultimateness. | |
+4 letters: aestheticisms, chastisements, establishment, gastrectomies, imitativeness, microcassette, misstatements, mistreatments, overestimates, resystematize, segmentations, semiliterates, statesmanlike, systematizers. | |
+5 letters: advertisements, ascertainments, chrestomathies, demonstratives, dismantlements, establishments, existentialism, intimatenesses, meditativeness, microcassettes, militantnesses, overstimulates, reinstatements, resystematized, resystematizes, sedimentations, sentimentalise, sentimentalism, sentimentalist, simultaneities, stapedectomies, superstimulate, systematicness, taskmistresses, tracheostomies, treponematosis, ultimatenesses, underestimates, unsystematized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 53 54 49 4D 41 54 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ... - .. -- .- - . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E S T I M A T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0053 0054 0049 004D 0041 0054 0045 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)395354434735543953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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