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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“It’s a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot,” said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced: their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgment, too, unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.
Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane’s week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.
Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more interest than the matter had ever
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