Difference between Calculate and Reckon

What is the difference between Calculate and Reckon?

Calculate as a verb is to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process. while Reckon as a verb is to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

Calculate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process. To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process. To plan something, especially something morally wrong.

Example sentence: If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Reckon

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Example sentence: I wish I was back at WSFA making twelve dollars a week. At least then, if someone come to see me, I'd know they were coming to see me. Now I reckon they just want something from me.

We hope you now know whether to use Calculate or Reckon in your sentence.

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