All 21 Uses of
estimate
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The beautiful legs, slanting down from the chair's arm in the center of his vision, annoyed him; they spoiled the rest of his estimate.†
Chpt 1.1
- She had asked her chief engineer to submit a design and an estimate of the cost.†
Chpt 1.7
- She had added wearily, "Get me an estimate on what we'll need to make our old bridge last for another five years.†
Chpt 1.7
- I've thought of a new Rearden Metal bridge, I've had my engineers give me an estimate.†
Chpt 1.7
- In a moment, he said, "The actual cost of the bridge is less than our original estimate.†
Chpt 1.7
- But don't you think you're underestimating me, Gwen?†
Chpt 1.7
- She had stood there silently, watching, without interest or purpose, like a chemical compound on a photographic plate, absorbing visual shapes because they were there to be absorbed, but unable ever to form any estimate of the objects of her vision.†
Chpt 1.9
- His particular estimate of it was none of your concern or mine.†
Chpt 1.10
- More valuable than any estimate I could give you.†
Chpt 1.10
- "Are you saying," he asked slowly, "that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?"†
Chpt 2.1 *
- The sum of the chart was an estimate of James Taggart's power.†
Chpt 2.2
- The glance was sufficient to give him an estimate of the nature of the group's concerns.†
Chpt 2.2
- What effect it had on the coal mines and the public welfare is for you to estimate.†
Chpt 2.4
- Glancing at the paper, Rearden wondered whether it was a deliberate mockery of decency, or so low an estimate of their victims' intelligence, that had made the designers of this paper print the text across a faint drawing of the Statue of Liberty.†
Chpt 2.6
- She hung up, and said to Eddie, in the tone of an estimate passed on physical objects, "They'll leave us alone for a while.†
Chpt 2.8
- "He overestimated," said Galt.†
Chpt 3.1
- She kept seeing his figure in her mind-his figure as he had stood at the door of the structure-she felt nothing else, no wish, no hope, no estimate of her feeling, no name for it, no relation to herself-there was no entity such as herself, she was not a person, only a function, the function of seeing him, and the sight was its own meaning and purpose, with no further end to reach.†
Chpt 3.1
- If this now makes me a disgraced woman in your eyes-let your estimate be your own concern.†
Chpt 3.3
- She was startled to see him looking at her with a touch of derision, as if he were mocking her estimate of his understanding.†
Chpt 3.4
- Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it, lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss.†
Chpt 3.7
- An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(estimate) rough calculation or judgment