Calculate vs Presage - What's the difference?
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(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
A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
To predict or foretell something.
* Shakespeare
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, passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past. }}
To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
As verbs the difference between calculate and presage
is that calculate is to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process while presage is to predict or foretell something.As a noun presage is
a warning of a future event; an omen.calculate
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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
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* * ----presage
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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