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Calculated   /kˈælkjəlˌeɪtəd/  /kˈælkjəlˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Calculated

adjective
1.
Carefully thought out in advance.  Synonyms: deliberate, measured.  "With measured irony"


Calculate

verb
(past & past part. calculater; pres. part. calculating)
1.
Make a mathematical calculation or computation.  Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out.
2.
Judge to be probable.  Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon.
3.
Keep an account of.  Synonym: account.
4.
Predict in advance.  Synonym: forecast.
5.
Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.  Synonyms: aim, direct.
6.
Have faith or confidence in.  Synonyms: bet, count, depend, look, reckon.  "Look to your friends for support" , "You can bet on that!" , "Depend on your family in times of crisis"



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"Calculated" Quotes from Famous Books



... leader freedom to act according to circumstances. Perhaps no better ambush was ever planned than the one Chief Joseph set for the shrewd and experienced General Howard. He expected to be hotly pursued, but he calculated that the pursuing force would consist of not more than two hundred and fifty soldiers. He prepared false trails to mislead them into thinking that he was about to cross or had crossed the Salmon River, which he had no thought ...
— Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman
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... comfortable with plenty of clothes and blankets. I took in a buffalo-robe and some things of that sort and left them there. I also cached a box of food there, consisting of dried beef, crackers, and such things; enough, I calculated, to last three days. I could hardly tell what to do about water, but at last tried the plan of chopping ice into small pieces and putting them into some of Mrs. Sours's empty glass fruit-jars. My notion was that in case I was imprisoned there I could button a can inside ...
— Track's End • Hayden Carruth
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... for the catalogue of the City Library which is printed at the end of the "Second Catalogue of the Library of the Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution," 1825, pp. 105-137, as its arrangement is by languages and sizes. This arrangement not being "calculated to be conveniently accessible" it was deemed advisable by the Committee of the Public Library that "it should be subjected to the same scientific arrangement as the books which are the property of the Public Library; ...
— Three Centuries of a City Library • George A. Stephen
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... old Ned was and Juggins said that he was three. He added that there was another brother not so old, but a very clever fellow about,—here Juggins paused and calculated—about eighteen months. ...
— Behind the Beyond - and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge • Stephen Leacock
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... the conclusions he had come to by the peat-stack were correct, and the police, who were obviously watching him, thought he might know something about the Hulton tragedy. If so, his movements had not been calculated to allay their suspicions. He had now papers that were probably dangerous in his pocket, and it he were caught before he got rid of them, it would be difficult to prove his innocence. The safe line would be to make for the nearest police station and give up ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
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