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expect
English
Alternative forms
- axpact, ax-pact (Bermuda)
Etymology
From Latin expect?re, infinitive form of exspect? (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spect? (“look at”), frequentative of speci? (“see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?sp?kt/, /?k?sp?kt/
- Hyphenation: ex?pect
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
expect (third-person singular simple present expects, present participle expecting, simple past and past participle expected)
- (transitive, intransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
- Synonyms: anticipate, hope, look for
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- And temperatures are expected to keep rising.
- To consider obligatory or required.
- Synonyms: call for, demand
- 1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar:
- England expects that every man will do his duty.
- To consider reasonably due.
- Synonyms: hope, want, wish
- (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
- 2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller
- “You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”
- 2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller
- (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
- Synonyms: await; see also Thesaurus:wait for
- 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.
- Synonym: wait
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sandys to this entry?)
Usage notes
- Expect is a mental act and mostly has a reference to the future, to some forthcoming event (e.g. a person expects to die, or he expects to survive). Think and believe may have reference to the past and present, as well as to the future (e.g. I think the mail has arrived; I believe he came home yesterday, that he is at home now). There is a not uncommon use of expect, which is a confusion of the two (e.g. I expect the mail has arrived; I expect he is at home). Await is a physical or moral act. We await something which, when it comes, will affect us personally. We expect what may, or may not, interest us personally. See also anticipate.
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- expect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- expect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- expect at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- except
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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:
- what calculates net worth
- what calculates gdp
- what calculates total tax
- what calculates your credit score
- what calculates stock price
- what calculates bmi
- what calculates snap score
- what calculates your rising sign
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