Estimate vs Analogize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between estimate and analogize

is that estimate is to calculate roughly, often from imperfect data while analogize is to express as an analogy.

As a noun estimate

is a rough calculation or guess.

estimate

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

A rough calculation or guess.

(construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job will probably cost.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=3 citation , passage=“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”}}

Synonyms

* estimation * appraisal

Derived terms

* ballpark estimate

Verb

To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.

* {{quote-book, year=1965, author=Ian Hacking, title=Logic of Statistical Inference, passage=I estimate that I need 400 board feet of lumber to complete a job, and then order 350 because I do not want a surplus, or perhaps order 450 because I do not want to make any subsequent orders.

citation

* '>citation

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.

* John Locke

It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.

* J. C. Shairp

It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.

Synonyms

* appraise * guess

Derived terms

* estimable * underestimate * overestimate

External links

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Anagrams

* English heteronyms English reporting verbs ----

analogize

English

Alternative forms

*analogise

Verb

(analogiz)

To express as an analogy.

To treat one thing as analogous to another.

*{{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Ginia Bellafante, A Daffy Suburban Family Comes Out of 3 Closets, New York Times citation

, passage=Repulsion over polygamy is so ingrained in the American consciousness — analogizing it to slavery, the Republican platform of 1856 called it one of the country’s “twin relics of barbarism” — that judgmentally reveling in the exotic perversions of “Big Love” feels like something on the order of a national right. }}

Derived terms

*analogization