Calculate

Definitions: Calculate

Calculate

Verb

1. Make a mathematical calculation or computation.

2. Judge to be probable.

3. Keep an account of.

4. Predict in advance.

5. Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.

6. Have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!" "Depend on your family in times of crisis".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "calculate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Literature

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Calculate

Belief

Count upon, depend upon, calculate upon, pin one's faith upon, reckon upon, lean upon, build upon, rely upon, rest upon; lay one's account for; make sure of.

Inquiry

Examine, study, consider, calculate; dip into, dive into, delve into, go deep into; make sure of, probe, sound, fathom; probe to the bottom, probe to the quick; scrutinize, analyze, anatomize, dissect, parse, resolve, sift, winnow; view in all its phases, try in all its phases; thresh out.

Intention

Take upon oneself; (undertake); take into one's head; meditate, contemplate of, think of, dream of, talk of; premeditate; compass, calculate; destine, destinate; propose.

Numeration

Verb: number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize.

Crosswords: Calculate

Calculate the velocity, v, in relation to the trajectory, t, in which g, gravity, of course remains a constant. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to. (The Prisoner; writing credit: Dennis Marks)

You know we don't calculate it that way, we compute total consumption versus - (Marooned; writing credit: Martin Caidin; Mayo Simon)

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Books

• Calculate with Confidence (Book with CD-ROM) (reference)

• How to Calculate and Use Drip Constants (reference)

• How to Calculate Measurements, Grades 5-6 (reference)

• How to Calculate Quickly (reference)

• How to Calculate the Length of Your Life and Then Extend It (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Be Thankful for What You Got/Figures Can't Calculate (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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I tried to calculate what this would come to, but it was too hard for me.

The men who work in the fields, the owners of the little orchards, watch and calculate.

They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and the moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks.

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Health

Your physician will calculate the amount of insulin needed to keep blood sugar levels within the normal range. (references)

Although urea may be distributed in multiple body pools most current measurements use a single-pool model to calculate urea clearance. (references)

Echocardiography also can be used to calculate a patient's ejection fraction, a measure of the amount of blood pumped out when the heart contracts. (references)

Business

As it is with the rest of Mexico, the market for commercial fishing equipment in Baja California is not easy to calculate. (references)

Another way to estimate the demand for leasing services is to calculate the potential share of leasing of total equipment purchases. (references)

It is difficult to exactly calculate the amount of money spent on home health care products, but it is evident that this amount has been growing in the last years. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

In the case of foreign suppliers, it is also important to calculate import costs. (references)

Guatemala

The 2000 inflation rate of 5.08 is roughly the same as 1999. In 2001 a new methodology is being used to calculate inflation. (references)

Egypt

Measurements of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Egypt vary according to the source and the definitions employed to calculate the figure. (references)

Political Economy

COLOMBIA

A special Andean price-band system (based on domestic and international prices) is applied to calculate variable tariffs of agricultural imports. (references)

COLOMBIA

Colombia's National Department of Statistics (DANE) recently decided that instead of using data for the main seven cities, it would use data for the 13 largest cities to calculate the national unemployment rate. (references)

Political Rights

Saint Kitts and Nevis

PAM leadership reported that one person had not been paid; the Government asserted that it needed information about her remuneration from her law firm before it could calculate her pension benefits. (references)

Trade

Colombia

It often appears that the reference price used to calculate the import duty does not accurately match the imported product, which results in the assessment of an inflated surcharge. (references)

Uae

Foreign banks with branches in the UAE are not permitted to calculate loans as a percentage of their global capital (which may however be used to calculate the capital adequacy ratio). (references)

Venezuela

Some products can only be imported by government agencies, such as cigarette paper (tax authorities calculate cigarette tax on the volume of cigarette paper imported by the manufacturers), bank notes, weapons of war and certain explosives. (references)

Travel

Taiwan

For most cities, the meter is used to calculate the fare. (references)

Mexico

Calculate 10 percent of restaurant bills and one U.S. dollar per bag to bellmen. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "calculate": calculate interest ♦ calculate on ♦ calculate the cost ♦ cast or calculate ♦ to calculate one's nativity. Additional references.

Ending with "calculate": back-calculate, re-calculate.

Afrikaan

bereken (account, charge, count, figure, work out). (various references)

Albanian

vlerësoj (appraise, appreciate, assess, balance, cost, esteem, estimate, evaluate, judge, measure, prise, prize, put, rate, value, weigh), supozoj (assume, conjecture, expect, guess, hypothesize, imagine, make, make advances to, presume, presuppose, rate, reckon for, suppose), peshoj (balance, cogitate, look around, ponder, scale, weigh, weigh out), njeh (reckon), llogarit (account, allow, count, determine, figure, figure on, number, numerate, reckon, score, weigh up), llogaris (account, allow, cast, compute, count, determine, figure, figure on, find, number, numerate, reckon, score, weigh up), besoj (accredit, believe, commit, confide, consign, credit, entrust, guess, hold, intrust, rely, Trow, trust, understand, ween), bëj me qëllim. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكر في النتائج, ‏حسب (cast, cipher, compute, deem, figure, from, gather, in his element, number, on, pursuant to, rank, reason, reckon, score, tally, tell), ‏تعمد (aforethought, forethought, premeditation, wilfulness, willfulness), ‏عد (commit oneself, conceive, count, count smb., enumerate, enumeration, number, tally, tell, think out), ‏جرد حسابا, ‏إتكل (build, count, count on, reckon, trust), ‏إعتقد (believe, conceive, consider, deem, imagine, reckon, say, suppose, think), ‏ظن (fancy, guess, imagine, misgiving, reckon, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, think). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смятам (adjudge, cipher, consider, count, deem, feel, figure, find, guess, judge, number, opine, reckon, regard, see, set down, take, ween, work), пресмятам (compute, figure, figure out, figure up, reckon, tally, tot up, value, work, work out), предвиждам (divine, envisage, forecast, foresee, intend, plan, previse, prevision, provide, provide for, second-guess, see beyond), изчислявам (evaluate, figure, figure on, figure out, judge, put, rate, reckon, reckon up, total, value, work out). (various references)

Chinese 

�"算 (Calculated, Calculating, Calculation), �" (beat, break, build, dozen, fetch, fight, from, issue, make, mix up, shoot, since, strike, tie up), 億 (a hundred million). (various references)

Czech

vypoèítat (compute, figure out, itemize, work out), propoèítat, poèítat (anticipate, charge, compute, count, number, numerate, reckon, rely on, tally), odhadovat (guess, make, reckon), odhadnout (appraise, assess, estimate, Gage, gauge, make, measure, survey, tax). (various references)

Danish

beregne (account, count, figure, work out). (various references)

Dutch

rekenen (account, count, demand, figure, postulate, require, work out), calculeren (account, count, figure, work out), berekenen (account, charge, compute, count, figure, work out). (various references)

Esperanto

kalkuli (count, figure, work out). (various references)

Farsi 

حساب کردن (Account, Compute, Count, Figure, Score, Sum), براوردکردن (Estimate, Rate, Size). (various references)

Finnish

laskea (account, compute, count, decrease, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, go down, include, lay, let, let down, let go, lower, pay out, reckon, set, set out, shoot, veer, veer out, work out). (various references)

French

calculer (cast off), compter (cast off). (various references)

Frisian

rekkenje (account, count, figure, settle, square up, work out), besiferje (account, count, figure, work out), berekkenje (account, count, figure, work out). (various references)

German

berechnen (account, bill, calculating, charge, compute, count, estimate, figure, intend, invoice, mean, recalc, reckon, to calculate, to compute, to recalc, work out), kalkulieren (account, cost out, count, figure, work out), rechnen (account, arithmetic, calculating, calkulate, comput, compute, computing, count, do sums, estimate, figure, have faith, have faith in, include, make calculations, numeracy, rate, reckon, sums, take into account, to calculate, to compute, to reckon, trust, work out), errechnen (compute, generate, to generate, work out). (various references)

Greek 

υπολογίζω (average, compute, count, determine, estimate, gauge, reckon, size up), λογαριάζω (account, compute, count, count in, figure, reckon, reckon on, tally). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתחשב, לחשבן (figure), לחשב (compute, determine, reckon, tally, work out). (various references)

Hungarian

számol (count, figure, reckon, to cipher, to count, to cypher, to envisage, to score, to tally), számít (anticipate, reckon, to count, to depend upon sg, to matter, to reckon), kitervel (cook up, invent, laid, plan, think out, to lay, to plot, to put up, to think out). (various references)

Icelandic

reikna (account, count, figure, work out). (various references)

Indonesian

menghitung (account, compute, count), menganggar (compute), memperhitungkan (calculate upon, compute, reckon), hitung (count). (various references)

Italian

calcolare (account, compute, count, count in, estimate, figure, include, make, number, put, quote, rate, reason, reckon, reckon up, work out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逆算 (calculate back, count), 算�'置く (to calculate, to divine), 所要時�"�'計る (to calculate the time required), 弾き出す (to calculate, to force out, to shoot, to spring out), 割出す (to calculate, to compute, to infer), 割り出す (to calculate, to compute, to infer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎゃくさ�" (calculate back, count), しょようじか�"�'はかる (to calculate the time required), さ�"�'おく (to calculate, to divine), わり� す (to calculate, to compute, to infer), はじき� す (to calculate, to force out, to shoot, to spring out). (various references)

Korean 

산출하십시�". (various references)

Manx

calghooley (calculating). (various references)

Norwegian

regne (account, count, figure, work out). (various references)

Papiamen

rek (account, count, figure, work out), kalkulá (account, appraise, count, estimate, figure, rate, work out). (various references)

Pig Latin

alculatecay.(various references)

Polish

liczyć. (various references)

Portuguese

calcular (account, appraise, cast up, cipher, compute, count, cypher, evaluate, figure, figure out, Gage, gauge, log cabin, number, rate, reckon, rough estimate), computar (compute, count, figure, figure out, reckon). (various references)

Romanian

chibzui (arrange, consider, ponderate, reflect, ruminate, think, weigh), calcula (appreciate, cipher, compute, consider, count, estimate, figure, rate, reckon, tally, time), socoti (account, believe, call, cipher out, compute, consider, count, deem, esteem, examine, fancy, feel, figure, find, guess, hold, imagine, judge, make, number, put, rate, reckon, regard, suppose, tally, think, work out), presupune (assume, conjecture, expect, fancy oneself, feel, imagine, imply, infer, presume, suppose, surmise, suspect), numãra (consider, count, enumerate, include, number, tally, tell), judeca (adjudge, adjudicate, censure, condemn, criticize, deem, discuss, give, judge, ratiocinate, reason, slate, think, try), îşi închipui (conceive). (various references)

Russian 

вычислять (compute, computed, determine, figure out, get, rate, reckon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sračunati (tot), računati (compute, consider, count, numerate, reckon, sum up), proceniti (appraise, assess, estimate, evaluate, judge, rate, size), izračunati (figure, figure out, integrate, reckon). (various references)

Spanish

calcular (account, add up, compute, count, estimate, figure, figure up, make, put, reason, reckon, reckon up, work out), computar (account, compute, count, figure, put, reckon, reckon up, work out). (various references)

Swedish

beräkna (account, allow, appraise, calculating, charge, compute, count, estimate, figure, gauge, project, rate, reckon, take into account, work out), uträkna (account, count, figure, work out), kalkylera (compute). (various references)

Thai

คำนว�", คา�"การ�"์ว่า. (various references)

Turkish

tasarlamak (architect, blue print, cast about, cast around, contemplate, contrive, design, devise, draft, draught, fix, forecast, incubate, mean, meditate, plan, premeditate, project, propose, purpose, ruminate, scheme, skeletonize, spin, think out, think up, trace), tahmin etmek (anticipate, cast off, conjecture, divine, dope, dope out, estimate, extrapolate, forecast, guess, judge, presume, put down, suppose, surmise, take stock of), saymak (account, assume, class, consider, count, count down, count in, count off, count up, deem, enumerate, honor, honour, number, number off, number to, rank, rate, reckon, reckon as, reckon for, regard, regard as, repute, respect, suppose, tally, think, treat as), planlamak (architect, arrange, blue print, chart, concert, contrive, design, devise, draft, have in view, map, mark out, plan, premeditate, program, programme, project, structure, think, work up), ihtimal vermek (deem likely, presume, regard as possible), hesaplamak (check out, cipher, compute, count up, discount, figure out, foot, foot up, number, reckon, work out), hesap yapmak (cast up, do sums), hesap etmek (compute, count up, reckon), güvenmek (accredit, bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, believe, build, confide, confide in, count on, credit, depend, fall back upon a thing, figure on, give credence to, go on, have confidence in, lean on, look to, pin one's faith on, place one's trust in, place reliance in, place reliance on, put faith in, put one's trust in, reckon on, reckon upon, recline upon, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose in, rest on, take smth. on trust, throw oneself on, trust), düşünüp taşınmak (chew, cogitate, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, mull over, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think over, turn over, turn over in one's mind, weigh, worry out), bel bağlamak (bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, build, go on, look to, place reliance in, place reliance on, reckon on, reckon upon, rely on, rely upon, repose in, rest on, trust to), ölçüp biçmek (plan carefully, ponder). (various references)

Turkmen 

hasaplamak (consider, count in, tally up), hasap etmek (take inaccount). (various references)

Ukranian 

складати калькуляцію, розраховувати (bank, bargain on, depend, expect), калькулювати, вважати (account, allot, allow, assume, believe, conceive, consider, count, deem, opine, posit, rate, repute, set down, suspect, think), обчислювати (compute, cypher, date, determine, figure out, numerate), підраховувати (add together, add up, balance, cast, cast up, cipher, compute, enumerate, even, figure up, numerate, score, total). (various references)

Welsh

clandro (reckon), castio (cast, cheat, trick). (various references)

calculare, calculo, computare, conputabit, conputabuntur, conputant, conputaremus, conputaris, conputas, conputasti, conputat, conputata, conputatae, conputati, conputatis, conputet, conputetur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "calculate": calculated, calculatedly, calculatedness, calculatednesses, calculates. (additional references)

Words ending with "calculate": miscalculate, recalculate. (additional references)

Words containing "calculate": miscalculated, miscalculates, recalculated, recalculates, uncalculated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Calculate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alculate, calcalate, calculat, cucullata. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: catcall, lacteal.

-3 letters: acetal, actual, acuate, alulae, caecal, callet, cullet, luteal.

-4 letters: aceta, acute, alate, alula, caeca, calla, cecal, cella, cleat, culet, eclat, lutea, tulle.

-5 letters: acta, alae, alec, caca, call, cate, caul, ceca, cell, celt, clue, cull, cult, cute, lace, late, leal, luce, lute, tace, tael, tala, talc, tale, tall, teal, tela, tell, tule.

+1 letter: calculated, calculates.

+2 letters: accentually, recalculate.

+3 letters: calculatedly, circulatable, miscalculate, recalculated, recalculates, uncalculated.

+4 letters: autecological, circumvallate, miscalculated, miscalculates, recalculating, recalculation, spectacularly, undialectical.

+5 letters: accumulatively, calculatedness, circumvallated, circumvallates, recalculations.

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