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reckoning

verb
/ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/UK

Etymology

Gerund of the verb reckon, from reckon + -ing. Compare Dutch rekening, German Rechnung.

  1. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “to make straight or right”
  2. derived from *rekan✻ — “swift, ready, prompt”
  3. inherited from *rekanōn✻ — “to count, explain”
  4. inherited from recenian — “to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”
  5. inherited from rekenen
  6. suffixed as reckoning — “reckon + ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of reckon

  2. The action of calculating or estimating something.

    • By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
    • So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.

  3. An opinion or judgement.

    • day of reckoning
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A summing up or appraisal.

      • My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.
      • The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.

    2. The settlement of accounts, as between parties.

    3. The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

    4. The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.

    5. Rank or status.

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Derived

day of reckoning, dead reckoning, Dutch reckoning, final reckoning, off-reckoning

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reckoning. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reckoning. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at reckoning

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA