different between deem vs calculate

English

Etymology

From Middle English d??men (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English d?man (“to decide, decree, deem, determine, judge; to condemn, doom, sentence; to consider, examine, reckon, think; to prove; to compute, estimate; to declare, tell; to glorify, praise”), from Proto-Germanic *d?mijan? (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”). It is also related to doom.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /di?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dim/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Verb

deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.

   Synonym: judge
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.

   Synonym: judge
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

   Synonym: judge

4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.

   Synonyms: consider; see also Thesaurus:deem
5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

Conjugation

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Translations

Noun

deem (plural deems)

1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Mede, deme, meed

Dutch

Alternative forms

• deim

Noun

deem m (plural demen, diminutive deemke n)

1. (Brabant) dumb person

Synonyms

• sukkel

References

• [1]

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German themu, demu, from Proto-Germanic *þammai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?m/
  • Rhymes: -e?m

Determiner

deem m or n (unstressed dem)

1. dative of deen
2. dative of dat

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?de.??j/
• (Portugal, following a non-nasal sound) IPA^(key): [?ðe.??j]

Verb

deem

1. inflection of dar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dim/

Noun

deem (plural deems)

1. woman, dame
2. maid (especially a kitchen maid)

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)

1. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

2. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
3. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
4. 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.

5. 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.

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

1. second-person plural present active imperative of calcul?
   1. "calculate ye, compute ye"
   2. (figuratively) "consider ye as, esteem ye"

Participle

calcul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of calcul?tus