Calculate vs Adjective - What's the difference?
calculate | adjective |
(mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
(mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
(intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
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, title= To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
* (William Shakespeare)
To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
* Archbishop Tillotson
(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
* 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
* Macaulay
(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
* Tooke
* 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
As verbs the difference between calculate and adjective
is that calculate is (mathematics) to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process while adjective is to make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.As an adjective adjective is
(obsolete) incapable of independent function.As a noun adjective is
(grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.calculate
English
Verb
(calculat)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated , might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- A cunning man did calculate my birth.
- [Religion] is calculated for our benefit.
Synonyms
* (determine value of or solution to) compute, reckon (old), work out * (determine values or solutions) compute, reckon (old)Derived terms
* calculatingExternal links
* * ----adjective
English
Adjective
(-)- In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
- The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
Synonyms
* (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) proceduralAntonyms
* (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantiveDerived terms
* adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjectiveNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia adjective)- The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
- (Fuller)
Hyponyms
* See alsoVerb
(adjectiv)- Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.
- In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages