calculate
/ˈkælkjʊleɪt/ verb B1- To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process. · Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places.
- To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- 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. · to calculate or cast one’s nativity
- To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end. · to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
Plural calculate · He/she/it calculates · Past calculated · Past participle calculated · -ing form calculating
Verb forms
- Base form
- calculate
- He/she/it
- calculates
- Past
- calculated
- Past participle
- calculated
- -ing form
- calculating
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Baron Danglars is a good father, and knows how to calculate.”
But there was no look calculated to reassure her; all it seemed to say was, “It is not only your reserve which afflicts me.”
After the ladies had departed for the ball, whither all the entreaties of Madame de Villefort had failed in persuading him to accompany them, the procureur had shut himself up in his study, according to his custom, with a heap of papers calculated to alarm anyone else, but which generally scarcely satisfied his inordinate desires.
There could be no doubt that all had been calculated and previously arranged; Monte Cristo then was in league with his father’s enemies.
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