verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a calculated gamble (=one in which you consider the risks very carefully)
▪ He made a calculated gamble that an early election would return his party to power.
deliberate/calculated/outright deceit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Brains, teeth, and antlers Relative organ size his been calculated as before.
▪ These were then calculated as percentages to allow direct comparisons.
how
▪ Its designers have calculated how its reliability increases with more memory.
▪ This would allow investors to factor out inflation before calculating how much money they made on the sale of a particular asset.
▪ Given certain pieces of data, it is necessary to calculate how many words in the lexicon match this search criteria.
▪ I waited, looking on while he calculated how much she owed him.
▪ Miss Logan calculated how far away their horses were tethered, and was not encouraged.
▪ There were people calling radio shows calculating how many wins it would take to reach the playoffs.
▪ And if you know the history of the universe in imaginary time, you can calculate how it behaves in real time.
▪ Part of the estimating process had involved calculating how many detailed drawings were needed.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ Scaling a means of calculating the amount of enlargement or reduction necessary to accommodate a photograph within the area of a design.
▪ In this case the theoretical yield is calculated from the amount of reactant which is not used in excess.
▪ This online service, dubbed Redemption Buster, aims to calculate the total amount of savings associated with remortgaging.
▪ Nylon cord: To calculate the amount, add together the width of the blind plus four times the length.
basis
▪ The annual budget was calculated on a historical basis of costs from previous years.
▪ Payments are calculated on the basis of the worker's age, length of continuous service, and pay.
▪ Confidence intervals for these were calculated on the basis of the associated binomial probability.
▪ Obviously he was calculating on the basis of marginal costs of running the car, but this is what all motorists do.
▪ Copy Database Working-Set Database Volumes are calculated on the following basis.
▪ Should any additional flights be introduced after publication of this brochure then they will be calculated on the same basis.
▪ Finally, morbidity rates can be calculated on the basis of data provided by national surveys of self-reported illness.
▪ Since 1989 benefits have been calculated on a daily basis rather than a weekly basis.
benefit
▪ Anniversaries are never a good time for calculating the costs and benefits of any relationship.
▪ Instead they have calculated benefits using a calculator and storing files in manila folders.
▪ The question for a public inquiry is whether that is a sensible way of calculating the direct benefit.
correlation
▪ Correlation coefficients were calculated by Spearman rank correlation test and, in selected instances, the chi square test.
▪ Spearman's Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient was calculated to determine the correlation between relative frequency and coverage.
▪ Correlation coefficients were calculated as Spearman rank correlations and comparison between the two methods by the sign test.
▪ The least square method was used in calculating the correlations.
▪ For each subject the correlation between this score and their familiarity ratings for the 10 junctions was calculated.
▪ Because subjects differ between the experiments the correlations calculated here are simply correlations over the 60 films of the mean ratings.
cost
▪ Column inch a measure of area used in newspapers and magazines to calculate the cost of display advertising.
▪ If there is no way to calculate these costs, we can believe that they run into many billions.
▪ How would you calculate the social cost of monopoly?
▪ In order for the caterer to calculate a realistic cost per person, you must give as much information as possible.
▪ Anniversaries are never a good time for calculating the costs and benefits of any relationship.
▪ Before buying omelet mixtures, calculate the cost.
▪ The Newcastle prescribing index was calculated from item and cost information.
costs
▪ Lowe had already calculated launch costs as at least £4 million.
▪ If there is no way to calculate these costs, we can believe that they run into many billions.
▪ Anniversaries are never a good time for calculating the costs and benefits of any relationship.
▪ Imagine you are going to calculate the running costs of a car, a whole fleet of cars if you wish.
difference
▪ Methane concentrations were calculated as the difference between breath and a corresponding room air sample.
▪ Essentially this feedforward network uses a refinement of the Widrow-Hoff technique, which calculates the difference between actual outputs and desired outputs.
▪ To compensate for differences in flow rates during perfusion, the appearance rates of myeloperoxidase and cytokines were calculated.
▪ Labflow can also store and calculate flow differences.
▪ Next, calculate the difference, less your out-standing mortgage.
distance
▪ I calculated angles and distances and located the nearest exit.
▪ Then calculate the distance walked in the same way as above.
▪ With this information, the device calculates the distance between the user and the satellite.
▪ Trent had calculated the distance between the culvert and the junction of the old and new rivers as less than four miles.
▪ Trent wiped the rain from his eyes as he tried to calculate speed and distance against the drift of the Zodiac.
▪ Spinrad has then been able to go to work calculating their distance.
▪ Using geometrical considerations he could calculate the distance from Polheim to the pole.
effect
▪ Johansson's team calculated the effect of different energy mixes, used at different levels of efficiency.
▪ Some had big wings, some had small wings, but nobody knew how to calculate the aerodynamic effects.
▪ She tried to calculate the effect of telling them all.
▪ A theory with only charged W particles turns out to have infinite quantities that arise in calculating certain effects.
▪ To calculate the effect of an indirect causal path, the values of adjacent paths are multiplied.
▪ We must first calculate the effect of this change on the resource column.
figure
▪ Clarke had a passionate interest in calculating the figure of the Earth, another central problem for an accurate topographical survey.
▪ The other jobs have some slack in them and this can be calculated as in Figure 6.7.
▪ The government calculated its figures on the basis of the growth rate of consumer prices on an annual basis.
▪ This will enable Mr Damant to calculate a better figure of maintainable earnings than has been possible in the past.
▪ One way of calculating this figure is to compare the dose from given levels of contamination of polonium-210 and iodine-131.
▪ Memorial uses conservative criteria to calculate its figures, and the true death toll is probably much higher.
▪ At any job symbol both the free float and the total slack, as defined in Figure 6.7, can be calculated.
figures
▪ The government calculated its figures on the basis of the growth rate of consumer prices on an annual basis.
▪ Memorial uses conservative criteria to calculate its figures, and the true death toll is probably much higher.
formula
▪ These assumptions and the mathematical formula used to calculate the volume have been described and validated by Everson and colleagues.
▪ Shown below is a simple and acceptable formula for calculating the written down value of smaller plant.
income
▪ This would normally be deducted from dividend income before calculating the income available for distribution to unit holders.
▪ Request a copy of your Social Security and or pension earnings, and calculate any interest income.
▪ The lender will work out the level of advance by calculating your disposable income after deducting the regular outgoings.
▪ In addition, there is some uncertainty about how to calculate discounted future income for the representative household.
▪ Full-time fees for students are calculated according to total parental income.
▪ But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so.
index
▪ One is to provide that the rent shall be calculated as if the index had not been adjusted.
▪ A more accurate assessment can be gained by calculating your body mass index or your percentage of body fat.
▪ Measure and calculate the detour index for the route between Plymouth and Exeter.
▪ As an example, suppose that we wish to calculate the Retail Price Index for April 1985.
interest
▪ Traditionally, lenders have calculated the interest annually, which means you effectively pay interest on money you no longer owe.
▪ Request a copy of your Social Security and or pension earnings, and calculate any interest income.
▪ The table above calculates your interest payments per month, although it should be used only as an approximate guide.
▪ I should never have even calculated the interest.
loss
▪ Normally we check with your employer and calculate any losses.
▪ It will take far longer to calculate other losses.
▪ Once more, there are a number of different methods of calculating the loss.
▪ Child calculated his loss at $ 2. 5 million.
method
▪ At first sight this method for calculating the poverty line seems reliable and sufficiently scientific to warrant its continued use.
▪ There are other methods for calculating water deficit.
▪ The least square method was used in calculating the correlations.
▪ These two methods were used to calculate the relative bidirectional reflectance of ten contrasting surfaces.
▪ But eurobonds make annual payments, and the appropriate method of calculating the yield to maturity is to use annual discounting.
▪ A method of calculating additional overhead expenditure is as follows.
▪ Once more, there are a number of different methods of calculating the loss.
number
▪ The amount is calculated according to the number of years for which you have paid contributions.
▪ We calculate the number of connections as follows.
▪ Questions relating to counting and calculating with whole numbers are generally tackled by girls as well as or better than by boys.
▪ The number of bowel actions each week was calculated.
▪ The package provides you with a means to calculate the number of radiators required to heat a building.
▪ Answer guide: Students could calculate this in a number of ways.
▪ Attendance rates are calculated by dividing the number of openings in the school register by the number of pupils present.
▪ I was trying to calculate the exact number of hours which the motion allows the Committee to spend debating the Bill.
odds
▪ An actuary, assuming no casual connection, might calculate the odds against such a coincidence.
▪ Lupo said oddsmakers use theoretical win percentages to calculate the odds, as they would on a sporting event.
▪ From the calculating of odds and strategies and tactics?
▪ Of course this could be a coincidence but we can calculate the odds against this.
▪ The business of lending money is like gambling-the creditors calculate the odds of the money being repaid.
▪ Now he merely appraised the situation, calculating the odds for life against death.
▪ Within minutes it was very strong and while my partner seconded I began calculating the odds of freezing to death.
percentage
▪ It is then often necessary to calculate the percentage yield.
▪ It can be calculated as a Percentage rate.
▪ In this way the formula of a compound can be used to calculate the percentage composition by mass of a compound.
▪ Scoring the log One easy way is to calculate the percentage of possible occasions when a particular activity or environmental condition applies.
▪ Effects of cimetidine and histamine of the cells were calculated as a percentage of the untreated controls.
▪ These can be compared to the original volume to calculate the percentage of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air.
price
▪ Suppose you had written a function called FN_discount to calculate the discount price from the normal retail price.
▪ Voice over Commuters are calculating the price they have to pay for comfort and punctuality.
▪ We can calculate the price per unit along the following lines: However, this only yields an average selling price.
▪ Sometimes he calculates the price on an abacus and then indicates the total.
▪ But when calculating the price of your holiday, don't forget to add on any applicable flight supplement detailed there.
▪ The cost was calculated in terms of the current price of slaughter stock, and so many head were then requested.
▪ These have been used to calculate continuous price series for 50 individual items based on 10 year average prices.
▪ It is debatable whether calculating the price is an art or a science.
probability
▪ Ninety five percent confidence intervals for the relative risk was calculated using exact probabilities.
▪ A young Salomon Brothers trader named Howie Rubin began to calculate the probability of homeowners' prepaying their mortgages.
▪ To calculate the joint probability of the coincidence occurring in any one minute we multiply the two separate probabilities.
rate
▪ These data were used to calculate annual referral rates using the practice populations as the denominator.
▪ In addition to net present value, the internal rate of return on a capital budgeting project is also calculated.
▪ This is done by calculating a rate of discount.
▪ It can be calculated as a Percentage rate.
▪ There is a simple way of calculating your aerobic walking rate.
▪ Take your pulse in the same way that you calculated your resting pulse rate earlier.
▪ The first is to calculate the risk-adjusted discount rate and apply it to the unadjusted cash flows.
▪ He calculated these as suicide rates in relation to the size of the population in which they occurred.
ratio
▪ Holmes calculated a ratio of approximately 2.4:1.
▪ The labelling index was calculated as the ratio of Ki-67 positive to negative cells per crypt.
▪ Sharpe calculated a benchmark ratio using the Dow Jones Industrial Average as a proxy for the market portfolio.
▪ We also calculated standardised mortality ratios for all hypertensive patients.
▪ A total labelling index was calculated as the ratio of labelled cell to total cell numbers for each column.
reference
▪ Costs Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate.
▪ Results were calculated by reference to a standard curve.
▪ Annual rate bills are calculated by reference to rateable values and the rate multiplier.
▪ Gains on property disposals are calculated by reference to historical net book value to the Group.
▪ But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so.
▪ This can be best calculated by reference to accurate time-cost information.
risk
▪ Odds ratios were calculated for the risk of fracture in the arthritic women.
▪ Delegation truly involved interpersonal judgment, taking calculated risks on whom to trust.
▪ It was a calculated risk, like all voyages into the unknown.
▪ They tend to set moderately difficult goals for themselves and to take calculated risks. 3.
size
▪ In calculating the size of deadweight burden triangles under monopoly, different economists have used different estimates of the elasticity of demand.
▪ This occurred because we overestimated the effectiveness of disulfiram when we calculated the sample size prior to initiating the study.
▪ For the last 20 years researchers have been able to calculate genome sizes and mutation rates.
▪ Fortunately, WordPerfect will do most of the page layout work for you-it calculates the appropriate sizes of columns and margins.
▪ What it does offer is a way of calculating the probable size of the error in estimating that value.
▪ The calculated size of the fireball may be several hundred meters in diameter.
▪ It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category.
tax
▪ Simplifies tax filing for thousands of middle-income Californians by increasing the exemption amounts used in calculating the Alternative Minimum Tax.
▪ In an Inland Revenue consultation paper, Mr Brown also signalled a willingness to disregard student loans when calculating tax credit levels.
▪ The information on the form is processed by our advanced computer system, which calculates all tax and National Insurance contributions.
▪ Block Financial says Kiplinger TaxCut had a problem in calculating state tax returns from Michigan.
value
▪ We can now calculate its value by application of Hess's law.
▪ Step 2 calculates the present value of the expected benefits of the new equipment.
▪ How do we calculate the value of the asset that we are trying to protect?
▪ Thus we can calculate the money value of the final coupon payment and principal repayment on 30 March 1988 as follows.
▪ To help you calculate the value of your possessions, there is a guide on the back of this leaflet.
▪ Lattice enthalpies determined through the Born-Haber cycle can be regarded as experimental values since the lattice enthalpies are calculated from experimental values.
▪ Reference should also be made to the Specific Claims Handling Instructions, especially to calculate written down value.
▪ Any spreadsheet should be able to calculate the present value of payments made over a fixed term.
■ VERB
use
▪ These data were used to calculate annual referral rates using the practice populations as the denominator.
▪ Simplifies tax filing for thousands of middle-income Californians by increasing the exemption amounts used in calculating the Alternative Minimum Tax.
▪ In the aerospace and transport industries, scientists and engineers use stoichiometric procedures to calculate fuel needs.
▪ The resulting estimates will then be used to calculate the changes in welfare resulting from some simple price reduction scenarios of 1992.
▪ Reproducibility studies on the data used to calculate the scan score yielded a coefficient of variation of 5.5%.
▪ Admittedly the computer did use them to calculate the appropriate genetic formula for every point on the picture.
▪ Bond enthalpies can also be used to calculate the enthalpies of reactions involving covalent molecules.
▪ These have been used to calculate continuous price series for 50 individual items based on 10 year average prices.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a calculated risk/gamble
▪ Investing in high-tech companies is a calculated risk.
▪ But it is a calculated risk.
▪ He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment.
▪ Injured Stephen Pears, who took a calculated gamble with a cheekbone injury, was never tested in goal.
▪ It was a calculated risk to take a man without forensic experience, but we were looking for a manager primarily.
▪ It was a calculated risk, like all voyages into the unknown.
▪ These high-handed tactics were obviously risky, but they were a calculated risk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I began calculating how long it would take to get to the airport if I left at 4:00.
▪ Sally calculated that she needed $300 to pay all her bills.
▪ Their accountant calculated the total cost of the project.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternatively, the balance conditions of the Hay bridge can be derived to allow L and R to be calculated.
▪ Effective administration needs people, managers, unswerving devotion and discipline; building from scratch needs capital and carefully calculated investment.
▪ He calculated that he could not beat either Heath or Maudling, and he preferred to avoid the contest.
▪ He calculates the car will last two more years after which he thinks he will be able to sell it for £400.
▪ Mixing curves are ticked to represent 20% increments, and were calculated using the following parameters.
▪ Several different scenarios can be calculated and printed out very rapidly.
▪ The price was calculated from an average of the market price in the last six months, as per stock market regulations.