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calculating
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Over the years his experiences had turned him into someone who was both calculating and ruthless. ▪ She was a cold, calculating criminal. ▪ Yarbrough was a calculating troublemaker. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ How strange ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculative , conniving , scheming , shrewd ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1710, "carrying out calculations," present participle adjective from calculate . Meaning "shrewdly or selfishly seeking advantage" is attested from c.1810.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context especially of a robot English) Which has the ability to calculate. 2 (context especially of a person English) Which serves one's own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner. v (present participle of calculate English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calculating \Cal"cu*la`ting\, n. The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.
Usage examples of calculating.
In this wise more than three hours had elapsed, the young Emir was himself again, and was calculating the average of the various rates of interest in every town in Syria, from Gaza to Aleppo, when Baroni returned, bearing in his hand an Egyptian vase.
Presumably the displacement calculated by calculating the locations of notes in the melody should be consistent with the rules for calculating the locations of chords, particularly if the chords are implied by the melody.
Leonard Colo at the mercy of their calculating, rehearsed questions for an hour or so of agony.
They grabbed the cables the constructs had dropped, connected them to their calculating machines.
A liar, yes, about his Miss Greenaway, and surely a calculating scoundrel when it came to women.
Uthan looked completely impassive, staring slightly past Hokan as if she was calculating something.
But although there may be a lot of unconscious fraud in paleoanthropology, the case of Piltdown demonstrates that the field also has instances of deception of the most deliberate and calculating sort.
From the moment the tickets had arrived she had been busy calculating how much Uncle Wally was worth, wondering what clothes would make the best impression in Wilma, Tennessee and how she was going to make the quads stop using foul language.
After a quick course adjustment, Mikhail ordered them back down to the protective depths, calculating that their goal lay on the seafloor only seven and a half kilometers due west of them.
We can be quite sure there are men on Grantholm and Nevasa today calculating how many troops they could pack aboard either superliner for a lightning invasion of the other planet.
In general temperament and character, they are everything the Hokas are not, cold, calculating, xenophobic, as if nature had struck a needed balance between good and evil on this planet.
The looks of the competitors, alternately stricken and calculating, showed that they were imagining the worst.
A lady, lumpy and crowlike in a black bombazine dress, rose from a chair and gave the trio the most calculating look Polly had ever met.
They were the first astronomers, calculating eclipses, and watching the periods of planets and constellations.
Elizabeth collected shy looks from bachelor farmers, appreciative appraisals from merchants and calculating glances from their wives and daughters, some of them directed openly to her waist.