The difference between Calculate and Reckon
When used as verbs, calculate means to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process, whereas reckon means to count.
check bellow for the other definitions of Calculate and Reckon
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Calculate as a verb (transitive, mathematics):
To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
Examples:
"'Calculate the square root of 3 to 10 decimal places."
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Calculate as a verb (intransitive, mathematics):
To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
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Calculate as a verb (intransitive, US, dialect):
To plan; to expect; to think.
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Calculate as a verb:
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.
Examples:
"to calculate or cast one's nativity"
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Calculate as a verb:
To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
Examples:
"to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people"
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Reckon as a verb:
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
Examples:
"I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. rfdatek Joseph Addison"
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Reckon as a verb:
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.
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Reckon as a verb:
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
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Reckon as a verb:
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
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Reckon as a verb:
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
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Reckon as a verb (intransitive):
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
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Reckon as a verb:
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.