Reckon vs Rehearse - What's the difference?
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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." .
To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
To narrate; to relate; to tell.
To practice by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy .
To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
* Charles Dickens
Reckon is a related term of rehearse.
As verbs the difference between reckon and rehearse
is that reckon is to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate while rehearse is to repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.reckon
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. .
Derived terms
* reckon for * reckon on, reckon upon * reckon with * reckon withoutSynonyms
* number * enumerate * compute * calculate * estimate * value * esteem * account * reputeSee also
* calculate * guessReferences
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*rehearse
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Verb
(rehears)- There's no need to rehearse the same old argument; we've heard it before, and we all agree.
- The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
- The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
- The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.
- He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her.