(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
(2) The two companies have pooled their software development resources to create MeeGo, a free software platform which they reckon will pave the way for the next generation of wireless communications devices.
(3) Chelsea might recover under similar circumstances, but I reckon they need a pretty big overhaul.
(4) When I joined, Francis said, I reckon we've got three or four more years left."
(5) 12.37pm BST Genworth , which sells mortgage insurance in the UK, also reckons any impact from today's measures will mainly fall on London.
(6) And none of them are making money, they are all buying revenue with huge war chests.” Patrick reckoned the 2.0 tech bubble will come to be defined by the unicorn.
(7) Even so, Byrne reckons that they will move to an embedded version of Windows 7 for ATMs over the next 18 months or so.
(8) An array of polling proves that the 50p rate is unanswerably popular: at the time it was introduced, Populus reckoned that 57% of people were in favour, as against only 22% against; and a subsequent poll by YouGov found that keeping the 50p rate would appeal to 88% of uncommitted voters.
(9) Carney will have to defend his bold pledge to peg UK interest rates to their current record low of 7% until unemployment rate has dropped to 7%, sometime in 2016 by the Bank's reckoning.
(10) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(11) Elsewhere in Tripoli, a Ghanaian reckons some of his friends would have stayed in Libya if the country was stable.
(12) Despite the "immense challenges" which Yves Mersch cited today , BNP reckons the ECB will have to take unconventional action to fight off weak inflation and to stimulate growth.
(13) Another possible way to minimize the effects of "noise" is to increase the size of the samples on which the reckon ing is based.
(14) Elisabeth Afseth, bond market expert at Evolution Securities, reckons that the first pointer of a fresh credit crunch was returning could be seen on August 18 this year when the European Central Bank revealed that one bank had borrowed $500m for a week – as it could not find the money on the open market.
(15) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(16) "If my math is correct, if Costa Rica score a second, Uruguay will only need a draw to progress alongside Los Ticos," reckons Vitor Ta.
(17) Children are their parents’ biggest investment: the cost of a child from birth to graduation is now reckoned to be £227,000 (Centre for Economic and Business Research, 2014).
(18) Since 2004, he reckons, the lab has spent around £6m on research in total, about half raised from European grants and the rest from projects with South Korean and American corporations.
(19) Simultaneously it is interesting to reckon the new aspects which are raised with the evolution of these methodologies such as the responsibility of decisions taken by intelligent systems, the probable advantages, at the present stage, of the interactive systems and the risk of self-learning systems.
(20) It's very reminiscent of a similar death almost a year ago, when a "middle-aged trade unionist" collapsed and died during a protest ( details ) Updated at 1.42pm BST 1.31pm BST 30,000 join Athens protests Reuters reckons that more than 30,000 people took part in today's demonstrations in Athens, and that the trouble began when "a small group of protesters" began throwing marble, bottles and petrol bombs at the ropt police who were "barricading part of the square".
Tale
Definition:
(n.) See Tael.
(v. i.) That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
(v. i.) A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.
(v. i.) A count or declaration.
(v. i.) To tell stories.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(2) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(3) Such tales of publicly subsidised private profits very much fit with the wider picture of relations between the City and the nation.
(4) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(5) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(6) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(7) Tales invites you to be straight or gay or a bit of both, or even a 93-year-old transsexual.
(8) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(9) He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
(10) "We truly are living through a tale of two Britains; while those at the top of the tree may be benefiting from the green shoots of economic recovery, life on the ground for the poorest is getting tougher."
(11) We're not just disembodied wombs in jars, like in Tales of the Unexpected.
(12) He spent his day with children who could not speak or hear, and so I could hardly expect him to bring home any interesting tales.
(13) What goes on in The Handmaid’s Tale [the overthrow of the US government by a theocratic dictatorship that suppresses the rights of women] is actually confined to what used to be the United States.
(14) When Japan was finally opened to western influence by Commodore Perry in 1854, Shakespeare's works – via Lamb's Tales – followed closely behind.
(15) Today Savina said she did not think her experience was a cautionary tale for journalists working on the Lebedev-owned Evening Standard, who might be anxious about their jobs.
(16) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(17) McQueen told this tale several times – the words varied from “McQueen was here” to more profane messages, between tellings – and so, years later, Anderson & Sheppard asked the prince’s valet for the suits of that era back, in order to examine the linings.
(18) No true evangelical ought to be tempted to give such tales any credence whatsoever, no matter how popular they become,” Johnson wrote.
(19) Photograph: Getty So that was the grand import of the producer’s vision, realised on an unprecedented scale and to eventual rightful acclaim: despite Gagarin and the rest, Americans in particular (and then Australia, and Britain) became transfixed by all the unfolding tales and testimonies.
(20) Unlike a similar tale across Stanley Park recently, when Kevin Mirallas ousted Leighton Baines and missed from the spot, Balotelli coolly sent Cenk Gonen the wrong way and Liverpool were reprieved.