Calculate
['kælkjʊleɪt] or ['kælkjulet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make a mathematical calculation or computation.
(verb.) judge to be probable.
(verb.) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.
錄入:文斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
(v. i.) 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; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity.
(v. i.) To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people.
(v. i.) To plan; to expect; to think.
(v. i.) To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute.
塞德里克錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Compute, reckon, estimate, count, rate, cast.[2]. Adjust, adapt, fit.
v. n. Tell, estimate, make a calculation, make a computation, cast accounts.
整理:雪麗
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Estimate, consider, weigh, number, count, apportion, proportion, investigate,reckon, rate, compute
ANT:Guess, conjecture, hit, chance, risk, stake, miscalculate
校對:威尔默
解釋/意思:
v.t. to count or reckon: to think out: to adapt fit (only passive with for): (U.S.) to think purpose.—v.i. to make a calculation: to estimate.—adjs. Cal′culable; Cal′culating given to forethought deliberately selfish and scheming.—n. Calculā′tion the art or process of calculating: estimate: forecast.—adj. Cal′culātive relating to calculation.—n. Cal′culātor one who calculates.
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例句/造句/用法:
- By means of an apparatus called the siren, it is possible to calculate the number of vibrations producing any given musical note, such, for example, as middle C on the piano. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- At the place where I planned to do this, I was (as nearly as I could calculate it) some three days distant, journeying on foot, from the sacred city. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- So many wheels to count and consider and calculate! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To study this he made an instrument called the dynamometer, which enabled him to calculate the resistance of friction to which carriages would be exposed on railways. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The effects of which movement it is impossible to calculate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She would not calculate, she would not compare. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I thought your good nature might--' 'I thought you knew,' she interrupted, with a smile, 'that my good nature is not to be calculated upon? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Is it because we are calculated to walk? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A calculated, cast up, balanced, and proved house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Her constitution is both sound and elastic;--better calculated to endure variations of climate than many more robust. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Baldwin, a construction engineer, living in the United States, began to work on calculating machines in 1870. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- She was aware of Mademoiselle standing near, like a little French beetle, observant and calculating. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Here was a new stunner--I had been calculating on four or five thousand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- No practical business man would erect a turbine or paddle wheel without calculating in advance the value of his water power. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He commenced to construct an automatic calculating machine, which he called a difference engine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I am calculating on the exposure. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was early in the seventeenth century that Napier, a native of Naples, invented the first actual mechanical means of calculating. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Thus the activities of the astronomer vary with the stars at which he gazes or about which he calculates. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Calculates to do the best for 'em I can. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
校對:帕蒂