Reckoning
['rek(ə)nɪŋ] or ['rɛkənɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reckon
(n.) The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
(n.) An account of time
(n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
(n.) The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
(n.) Esteem; account; estimation.
(n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
(n.) The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
Typed by Konrad
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Counting, computation, calculation.[2]. Account, register, score, charge, bill.
Editor: Winthrop
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Computation, account, score, bill, charges
Typed by Keller
Examples
- 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.
- The earliest recorded reckoning is by moons and by generations of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had to keep himself in reckoning with the world of work and material life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They'll find themselves mistaken this time, I fancy,--a little out of their reckoning. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There you go, said Cassy, looking darkly after him; your reckoning's to come, yet! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No fresh outbreak of anger against him, no new appeal to me to hasten the day of reckoning escaped her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I called the waiter, paid the reckoning, got into my coat, put on my hat and started out the door. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He said this with the air of one carefully reckoning up and striking a balance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Reckoning the ordinary dividend of the bank of England at five and a-half per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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