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Estimate vs Conclude - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between estimate and conclude

is that estimate is to calculate roughly, often from imperfect data while conclude is to end; to come to an end.

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.
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  • 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

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    Anagrams

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    conclude

    English

    Verb

    (conclud)
  • To end; to come to an end.
    • The story concluded with a moral.
  • To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
  • To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
    • to conclude a bargain
  • * Shakespeare
    • if we conclude a peace
  • To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
    • From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
  • * Tillotson
    • No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
  • (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
  • * Addison
    • But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
  • To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
    • The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
    A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
  • (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
  • * Hooker
    • The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
  • (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
  • * Bible, Romans xi. 32
    • For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
  • * Bible, Gal. iii. 22
    • The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
  • (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

    • Derived terms

    * concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusible

    Antonyms

    * (to end) begin, initiate, start