Beckons vs Reckons - What's the difference?
beckons | reckons |
(beckon)
(ambitransitive) To wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
(reckon)
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
* ...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version .
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.
* He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version
* For him I reckon not in high estate. .
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
* ...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version.
* Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. .
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;
* For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version.
* Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin... --Romans 6:11, King James Version
* I reckon he won't try that again.
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
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.
* Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." .
As verbs the difference between beckons and reckons
is that beckons is (beckon) while reckons is (reckon).beckons
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(head)beckon
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(en verb)- His distant friends, he beckons near.
- It beckons you to go away with it.
reckons
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(head)Anagrams
*reckon
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* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. .