Reckon
['rek(ə)n] or ['rɛkən]
Definition
(verb.) take account of; 'You have to reckon with our opponents'; 'Count on the monsoon'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
(v. t.) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.
(v. i.) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
(v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Count, number, compute, calculate, enumerate, cast, cast up.[2]. Estimate, esteem, account, regard, repute.[3]. [Colloquial.] Think, conjecture, suppose, guess, believe.
Checker: Paulette
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compute, calculate, count, regard, estimate, value, account, consider, argue,infer, judge
ANT:Miscompute, miscalculate, misestimate, misreckon
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Definition
v.t. to count: to place in the number or rank of: to esteem: to think believe.—v.i. to calculate: to charge to account: to make up accounts: to settle accounts (fol. by with): to count or rely (with on or upon): to have an impression: to think: to suppose.—ns. Reck′oner; Reck′oning an account of time: settlement of accounts &c.: charges for entertainment: standing as to rank: (naut.) a calculation of the ship's position: (B.) estimation: value.—Reckon for to be answerable for; Reckon on or upon to count or depend upon; Reckon without his host (see Host).—Day of reckoning the day when an account must be given and a settlement made: the judgment-day.
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Examples
- Why, I reckon she _is_ tol'able fair, said Haley, blowing the smoke out of his mouth. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Only you would rather they would do something worse than merely stop a wagon before you reckon with them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I reckon 'at us manufacturing lads i' th' north is a deal more intelligent, and knaws a deal more nor th' farming folk i' th' south. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Let us reckon back, sir. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Would you mind sitting quiet--on the family account--while I reckon 'em up? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Is it in good spirits then, you reckon me? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Not above a mile, I reckon? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Lady Catherine was reckoned proud by many people he knew, but _he_ had never seen anything but affability in her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The price of an ox, reckoned at ten guineas, is about three score times the price of a lamb, reckoned at 3s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They reckoned wealth by cows. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Zachariah Chandler was the candidate of the Whigs for the office of Mayor, and was elected, although the city was then reckoned democratic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I am reckoned to have got as pretty a knowledge and experience of the world as most men. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The church spire is reckoned remarkably handsome. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And he is a poor self-swindler who lies to himself while he reckons the items, and sets down under the head--happiness that which is misery. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He would then have suffered under the pecuniary distresses which, because they are removed, he now reckons as nothing. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- By an inspection of the trains, and by reckoning the time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The chances against me wanted no reckoning up--they were all merged in one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Do you call the whole reckoning? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It is strange; I had lost the just reckoning of her age. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Probably man began reckoning time by the clock of the full and new moons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was no replying to this very apposite conclusion, and, therefore, Mr. Pickwick, after settling the reckoning, resumed his walk to Gray's Inn. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It ain't Locks as YOU'VE been a reckoning up,' said Riderhood, when the schoolmaster's eyes came back again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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