different between reckon vs yeild
reckon
English
Alternative forms
- reckin (dialectal)
- recken (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ?erecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-Germanic *rekan?n? (“to count, explain”), from Proto-Germanic *rekanaz (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“to make straight or right”).
Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to ennumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k?n/
- Rhymes: -?k?n
Verb
reckon (third-person singular simple present reckons, present participle reckoning, simple past and past participle reckoned)
- To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
- To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 4:9
- […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
- Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 4:9
- (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
- I reckon he won't try that again.
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 8:18
- For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 6:11
- Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.
- To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
- (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
- Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reken shall."
Synonyms
- number
- enumerate
- compute
- calculate
- estimate
- value
- esteem
- account
- repute
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- calculate
- guess
References
- reckon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- conker, rocken
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yeild
English
Verb
yeild
- Misspelling of yield.
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