reckon

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An impression or opinion. informal
    — Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'
  2. Alternative form of rackan (“chain”). alt-of,alternative,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
    — […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
  4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause colloquial
    — I reckon he won't try that again.
  5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
    — There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.
  6. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. intransitive
  7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

词形变化

reckons present,singular,third-person reckoning participle,present reckoned participle,past reckoned past reckin alternative,dialectal recken alternative,obsolete reckons plural reckin alternative,dialectal recken alternative,obsolete reckons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
chinny reckon dead reckon forereckon misreckon outreckon overreckon reckonable reckoner reckon for reckoning reckonmaster reckon on reckon out reckon up reckon upon reckon with reckon without reckon without one's host to reckon with underreckon unreckoned unreckoning

词源

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”).
Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon, charge”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Norwegian Nynorsk rekna (“to calculate”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
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