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rough calculation or judgment- What do you estimate this will cost?
estimate = roughly calculate or guess
- I want a written estimate before I approve the repair.
- Can you estimate the cost?
- Check the reasonableness of your math solution by estimating the answer before solving the problem.
- I asked her to give me a firm price, but she would only give me an estimate.
- I hope her estimate of less than $100 to repair my car is good because I only have $100.
- Whenever he performed a minor service for Jem and me, as removing a splinter from a foot, he would tell us exactly what he was going to do, give us an estimation of how much it would hurt, and explain the use of any tongs he employed.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Miss Caroline's progress next door could be estimated by the frequency of laughter; however, the usual crew had flunked the first grade again, and were helpful in keeping order.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The high estimation then placed upon the military character might be seen in the lofty port of each individual member of the company.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- And this, moreover, was a mother's estimate of the child's disposition.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- The people possessed by hereditary right the quality of reverence, which, in their descendants, if it survive at all, exists in smaller proportion, and with a vastly diminished force in the selection and estimate of public men.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard—and I'm bound to say Tom Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- What is the estimate to repair the car?
- His estimate was accepted.Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
- An attorney friend of mine estimated he might spend seven years in prison.Chris Crutcher -- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
- He sent someone to look at the road and estimated a cost of at least fifty thousand U.S. dollars.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- There have been so many attacks made on the volunteers, and a man like you raises them in public estimation.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- She estimates three for each adult, one or two for each of the children.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- Just get a folder, a notebook, and get second estimates on everything.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
estimate = calculation of projected cost
estimate = roughly calculate or guess
estimating = making a rough calculation
estimate = rough calculation or guess
estimate = rough calculation or informed guess
estimation = an educated guess (rough calculation)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
estimated = roughly calculated or guessed
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
estimation = judgment of his qualities or a value (as a person)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
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