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calculates

vb. (en-third-person singular of: calculate)

Usage examples of "calculates".

On this canon the French writer calculates the inhabitants of Rome at that time.

The Abbe Guenee, in a memoir on the fertility of Palestine, of which I have only seen an extract, calculates the gifts of Eudocia at 20,488 pounds of gold, above 800,000 pounds sterling.

He calculates, that a ball, even o two hundred pounds, would require a charge of one hundred and fifty pounds of powder.

Dorrin calculates, then waves to the figures across the narrow section of the river.

Necker may raise five hundred thousand men, which he calculates on for the subjugation of France.

As he makes his way to the bar, he calculates the likely cost of six drinks.

However, it is equally wrong to believe that because he coldly and rationally calculates the odds, he gets those calculations correct.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul and them ar matters.