All 4 Uses of
estimate
in
A Thousand Acres
- In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories.†
p. 19.7estimation = a judgment, rough calculation or guess of qualities or a value
- Pete wanted to make a killing, and an idea hatched was already in his own estimation a killing made, concrete and cherished.†
p. 31.6 *
- He must have estimated our relative worth, because he then addressed Pete and me once for every three times he addressed Ty and Rose.†
p. 281.7estimated = roughly calculated or guessed (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
- His estimation of or feelings about what had happened weren't evident in any way, and something was aroused in me, an instinctive female reaction of caution, as if all that had happened was still before us, as if the sense that caution was in order wasn't, by now, the result of experience.†
p. 322.5estimation = a judgment, rough calculation or guess of qualities or a value
Definition:
rough calculation or judgment