Verb

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors'' that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like ''comed'', ''goed'', ''seed'', ''buyed'', ''bringed , etc. frequently used by young children. [...]

Verb

(calculat)

(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= 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.}}

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)

A cunning man did calculate my birth.

To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.

* Archbishop Tillotson

[Religion] is calculated for our benefit.