Reckon vs Trust - What's the difference?
reckon | trust |
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." .
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
* John Locke
Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
* Bible, Psalms, lxxi. 5
(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
* Shakespeare
* Denham
(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
(legal) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.
A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
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To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
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To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
* (rfdate) 2 John 12.
* (rfdate) Heb. xiii. 18.
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
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To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
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To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
* Johnson
To risk; to venture confidently.
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To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
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To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
* (rfdate) Isa. xii. 2
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
* (rfdate) Johnson
In intransitive terms the difference between reckon and trust
is that reckon is to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing while trust is to sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.As verbs the difference between reckon and trust
is that reckon is to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate while trust is to place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.As a noun trust is
confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.As an adjective trust is
secure, safe.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
*Anagrams
*trust
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Noun
(en noun)- He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
- Most take things upon trust .
- 1671', O ever-failing '''trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, ''Samson Agonistes
- 1611', Such '''trust have we through Christ. — ''Authorised Version , 2 Corinthians iii:4.
- I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust .
- O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
- [I] serve him truly that will put me in trust .
- Reward them well, if they observe their trust .
- I put the house into my sister's trust .
Synonyms
* belief * confidence * expectation * faith * hopeAntonyms
* mistrustDerived terms
* beef trust * brain trust * brains trust * constructive trust * honorary trust * partial trust * remainder trust * resulting trust * spendthrift trust * trust fall * trust fund * trust territory * trustworthyVerb
(en verb)- We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
- In God We Trust - written on denominations of US currency
- I will never trust his word after.
- He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
- Trust me, you look well.
- I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
- We trust we have a good conscience.
- I trust you have cleaned your room?
- Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust , Now to suspect is vain.''
- Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
- Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .
- [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
- More to know could not be more to trust .
- I will trust and not be afraid.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .