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Calculate

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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Manner of action 35

Add 76% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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Approximate 76% connected

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

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Average 76% connected

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

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Balance 76% connected

An apparatus for weighing.

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Bill 76% connected

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

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Budget 76% connected

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

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Capitalize 76% connected

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Compound 76% connected

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

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Contain 76% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Credit 76% connected

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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Debit 76% connected

A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.

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Deduct 76% connected

To lead forth or out.

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Differentiate 76% connected

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to…

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Divide 76% connected

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Estimate 76% connected

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Factor 76% connected

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for ot…

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Fraction 76% connected

The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.

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Gauge 76% connected

To measure or determine with a gauge.

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Guess 76% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Integrate 76% connected

To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

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Interpolate 76% connected

To renew; to carry on with intermission.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Miscalculate 76% connected

To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.

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Misestimate 76% connected

To estimate erroneously.

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Multiply 76% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

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Overbalance 76% connected

To exceed equality with; to outweigh.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Prorate 76% connected

To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.

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Resolve 76% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Solve 76% connected

To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a…

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Subtract 76% connected

To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.

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Survey 76% connected

To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.

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Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Designate 76% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

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Destine 76% connected

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative…

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Forebode 76% connected

To foretell.

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Foretell 76% connected

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

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Intend 76% connected

To stretch' to extend; to distend.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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Maintain 76% connected

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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Predict 76% connected

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

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Prognosticate 76% connected

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Reason 76% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Specify 76% connected

To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

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Trust 76% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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Calculable 74% connected

That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.

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Calculable 74% connected

That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.

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Calculation 74% connected

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.

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Calculation 74% connected

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.

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Calculator 74% connected

One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.

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Calculator 74% connected

One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.

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Calculus 74% connected

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them…

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Calculus 74% connected

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them…

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Prediction 74% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

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Prediction 74% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

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Prognosis 74% connected

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydro…

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Prognosis 74% connected

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydro…

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Reliance 74% connected

The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient suppor…

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Reliance 74% connected

The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient suppor…

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Reliant 74% connected

Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.

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Reliant 74% connected

Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.

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Account 92% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Aim 92% connected

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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Bank 92% connected

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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Bet 92% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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Cipher 92% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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Compute 92% connected

To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.

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Count 92% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Cypher 92% connected

See Cipher.

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Depend 92% connected

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

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Direct 92% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Estimate 92% connected

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

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Figure 92% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Forecast 92% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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Look 92% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Reckon 92% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Rely 92% connected

To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to h…

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Swear 92% connected

To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also…

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