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RECKONING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
Example:
the counting continued for several hours
Synonyms:
count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reckoning" is a kind of...):
investigating; investigation (the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reckoning"):
blood count (the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample)
census; nose count; nosecount (a periodic count of the population)
countdown (counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle))
miscount (an inaccurate count)
poll (the counting of votes (as in an election))
recount (an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election)
sperm count (the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
Synonyms:
calculation; computation; figuring; reckoning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reckoning" is a kind of...):
problem solving (the thought processes involved in solving a problem)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reckoning"):
extrapolation ((mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values)
interpolation ((mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known)
conversion (a change in the units or form of an expression:)
approximation; estimate; estimation; idea (an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth)
derivative; derived function; differential; differential coefficient; first derivative (the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx)
integral (the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x))
Derivation:
reckon (make a mathematical calculation or computation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A bill for an amount due
Synonyms:
reckoning; tally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reckoning" is a kind of...):
account; bill; invoice (an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb reckon
Context examples:
He now flew into a very great passion, and, suspecting the company who had come in the night before, he went to look after them, but they were all off; so he swore that he never again would take in such a troop of vagabonds, who ate a great deal, paid no reckoning, and gave him nothing for his trouble but their apish tricks.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“As I was saying,” he went on, as though nothing unwonted had happened, “the shark was not in the reckoning. It was—ahem—shall we say Providence?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
What is over and above your reckoning you may take off from your charges to the next needy knight who comes this way.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But a week must pass; only a week, in Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she began to wish that she could feel secure even for a week.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning the numbers of our people, by a computation drawn from the several sects among us, in religion and politics.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The seaman had no love of cities, and was happier wandering over the Downs, and turning his glass upon every topsail which showed above the horizon, than when finding his way among crowded streets, where, as he complained, it was impossible to keep a course by the sun, and hard enough by dead reckoning.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The cards were brought, and Fanny played at cribbage with her aunt till bedtime; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the reckonings of the game—“And that makes thirty-one; four in hand and eight in crib.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The shark was not in the reckoning. It—
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But when it came to almagest and astrolabe, the counting of figures and reckoning of epicycles, away would go her thoughts to horse and hound, and a vacant eye and listless face would warn the teacher that he had lost his hold upon his scholar.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Accordingly one day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly say I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
