Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Day of reckoning   /deɪ əv rˈɛkənɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Reckoning  n.  
1.
The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically:
(a)
An account of time.
(b)
Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. "Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often." "He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived."
2.
The charge or account made by a host at an inn. "A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning."
3.
Esteem; account; estimation. "You make no further reckoning of it (beauty) than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed."
4.
(Navigation)
(a)
The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
(b)
The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; said of a ship.
day of reckoning the day or time when one must pay one's debts, fulfill one's obligations, or be punished for one's transgressions.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Day of reckoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... General Jackson in one of his messages. The destruction of the United States Bank had forced the transfer of the national funds, which it had held on deposit, to the State banks. They had loaned these funds on securities, often of doubtful value or worthless, and when the day of reckoning came general bankruptcy ensued. Manufacturers were obliged to discharge their workmen; provisions were scarce and dear in the Atlantic States, because funds could not be obtained for the removal eastward of the Western crops; and there was much actual distress in the large cities ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore
... until that we heard the enemy were marched off to Stirling. He is now pretty well and in no danger. Earl Loudoun passed him as he lay in the field, without taking any notice of him, and he was wounded there by the dragoons after he had surrendered to them; but I hope there will be one other day of reckoning for these things. My Lord Mar sent off two or three people to take care of Lord Forfar when he heard he was wounded, and one of them waited of him to Stirling. He expressed a good dale of consern that he should have been ingadged against his countrymen, and sent a breslet ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. - Volume I. • Mrs. Thomson
... was Tony himself who furnished the solution. From the men supposed to be working under his orders he learned the day following Maitland's visit of inspection something of the details of that visit. He quickly made up his mind that the day of reckoning could not long be postponed. None knew better than Tony himself that he was no foreman; none so well that he loathed the job which had been thrust upon him by the father of the man whom he had carried out from the very mouth of hell. It was something to his credit that he loathed himself ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... reason why Adrian Van Zoon wished him to vanish must be money, because only money could be powerful enough to make such a man risk a terrible crime. Well, he would have a great score to settle with Van Zoon. He did not yet know just how he would settle it, but he did not doubt that the day of reckoning would come. ...
— The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis • Joseph A. Altsheler
... none, and were, perhaps naturally, in an angry and sullen mood. The finances of the State were in a chaotic condition, the treasury at low ebb, and credit had receded to a vanishing point. After staving off the day of reckoning as long as possible, the welcome news reached the Herati troops that they were to receive their pay in full next morning, September 3rd, at the ...
— The Story of the Guides • G. J. Younghusband


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com