(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".
Wreck
Definition:
(v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
(v. t.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
(v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
(v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
(v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
(v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
(v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
(v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
(v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
(v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
(v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(2) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(3) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
(4) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
(5) The optimism is based on the ability of people, in the end, to see sense.” Shorten said the budget included large elements that the Labor party under his leadership could never support in the parliament, including pricing Australian children out of university and “wrecking Medicare”.
(6) Water supplies are restricted to the wealthy few, and landmark buildings such as the presidential palace remain wrecked nine years after the end of the war.
(7) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(8) An investigation is under way to find out what caused the explosion that wrecked the Warrior vehicle as it patrolled the border of Helmand and Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
(9) Another wonderful thing to do is to take a ferry from Tobermory to Fathom Five national marine park and swim to one of the many underwater wrecks.
(10) The government is also correct to say the current system is too complex; 1,300 pages of planning law are being used (understandably) by anyone who thinks a development project would wreck their view and damage the value of their house.
(11) We can do that but we can wreck the inquiry in the process,” the Conservative MP told Today.
(12) The life of this once serene and resilient woman has been wrecked.
(13) The main building is wrecked, the control tower holed and on the scorched tarmac are the remains of 21 planes – much of Libya's small commercial fleet.
(14) The mine will destroy the forests on which the Dongria Kondh depend and wreck the lives of thousands of other Kondh tribal people living in the area."
(15) This is a gross injustice and it has wrecked my life.
(16) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(17) A healthy Neftali Feliz takes over the closer duties from Joe Nathan in Ron Washington’s pitching staff, one that was wrecked by injuries in 2013, something that has to change this time out.
(18) The bad press and everything that’s happened – it’s wrecked my life to a certain extent.
(19) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) Fabulous balls-up 2.
(20) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.