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reckon is a verb:
- To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
"...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version." - 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.
"He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version" - To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
"...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version." - To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version." - 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.
"Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer."
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What type of word is reckon?
- Verb usage: ...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version.
- Verb usage: I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Joseph Addison.
- Verb usage: He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version
- Verb usage: For him I reckon not in high estate. John Milton.
- Verb usage: ...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version.
- Verb usage: Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Verb usage: For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version.
- Verb usage: Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin... --Romans 6:11, King James Version
- Verb usage: I reckon he won't try that again.
- Verb usage: Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of reckon are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of reckon, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
