Estimate

More definitions of "estimate":

• (noun): The respect with which a person is held.
  Synonyms: estimation

• (noun): An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth.
  Example: "An estimate of what it would cost"
  Synonyms: estimation, approximation, idea

• (verb): Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time).
  Example: "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
  Synonyms: gauge, approximate, guess, judge

• (noun): A statement indicating the likely cost of some job.
  Example: "He got an estimate from the car repair shop"

• (noun): A document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation).
  Synonyms: appraisal, estimation

• (verb): Judge to be probable.
  Synonyms: calculate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast

Famous quotes containing the word estimate:

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein ‘tis precious of itself
As in the prizer.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)