different between calculate vs theorise
calculate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin calcul?tus, perfect passive participle of calcul? (“I reckon, originally by means of pebbles”), from calculus (“a pebble”). Refer to calculus for origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kælkj?le?t/, /?kælkj?le?t/
- Hyphenation: cal?cu?late
Verb
calculate (third-person singular simple present calculates, present participle calculating, simple past and past participle calculated)
- (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
- 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 adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
- [Religion] is […] calculated for our benefit.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (determine value of or solution to): compute, reckon (old), work out
- (determine values or solutions): compute, reckon (old)
Derived terms
- backcalculate
- calculating
Related terms
- calculation
- calculus
- calculator
- incalculable
Translations
Further reading
- calculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- calculate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “calculate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Latin
Verb
calcul?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of calcul?
- "calculate ye, compute ye"
- (figuratively) "consider ye as, esteem ye"
Participle
calcul?te
- vocative masculine singular of calcul?tus
calculate From the web:
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theorise
English
Verb
theorise (third-person singular simple present theorises, present participle theorising, simple past and past participle theorised)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of theorize.
Anagrams
- isothere, otherise, theories
theorise From the web:
- theorise meaning
- what does theories mean
- what does theorise
- what does theorise me
- what did pasteur theorise in 1878
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