computen.

Brit.

/kəmˈpjuːt/, U.S.

/kəmˈpjut/

Forms: late Middle English– compute; also Scottish pre-1700 comput.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin computus.

Etymology: < classical Latin computus computus n. Compare Anglo-Norman compot , compost , comput (12th cent. in sense 1), Middle French, French comput (1584), Spanish cómputo (1590), Italian computo (a1348). Compare compute v., and earlier compot n., computist n. N.E.D. (1891) assumes stress on the first syllable in sense 1, but there is apparently no conclusive evidence for this.

†1. = computus n. 2. Obsolete. compute manual n. [after post-classical Latin computus manualis (12th cent.)] Obsolete a medieval treatise on the art of reckoning on the hands the dates of Church feasts, etc., which contains many mnemonic nonsense-verses. (In the verse referred to in quot. 1533, Adam degebat ergo cifos adrifos (sic), the 12 syllables stand for the 12 months.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun]

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calends1470

reckoningc1480

compute1483

compost1535

ephemeris1597

computus1675

year count1894

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > table

compute manual1483

tariff1591

sexagenary table1594

table of multiplication1594

long measure1623

scale of numbers1630

Rudolphine Tables1635

multiplication table1657

chiliad1675

sexagesimal table1685

nautical card1700

pence table1706

numeration tablea1743

tablebook1755

ready reckoner1757

calculator1784

tables1828

times table1902

log tablec1935

the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical calculation > [noun] > astronomical tables

Arzachel's tablesa1400

collect yearsc1405

Toletan tablesc1405

compute1483

compost1535

regimenta1544

Prutenic tables1599

Prutenics1603

horoscopea1656

computus1675

Alfonsines1710

solar tables1812

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) v. i. f. lxxxxij He that made this compute and the kalendre.

1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. viii. f. ccvii^v The commen verse of the compute manuell.

a. Reckoning, calculation, computation; an instance of this. In later use chiefly in beyond compute.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > action of calculating or counting

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telling1340

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countingc1380

accountinga1387

summinga1387

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count?a1400

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reckoningc1425

numeration?a1475

supputation?a1475

compute1531

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summing up1607

computing1629

subduction1656

enumerating1864

headcount1913

1531 in D. Laing Reg. Domus de Soltre (1861) 100 Begynnand to the compute off his bountay the tuenti-thua daye of Aprile yheirly.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 19 According to the historical Computes euen of sundry these fauorites.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 213 Which..makes 26. dayes and 22. howres, called by Physitians the medicall month; introduced by Galen..for the better compute of Decretory or Criticall dayes.

1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) ii. ii. 45 Any new pressure..cannot come into compute in this case.

1705 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. I (1863) iv. 146 The expenses I have been at, which..by a modest compute comes to 100l. ready moneys.

1721 Some Observ. conc. Plague 9 They increase so prodigiously, that their Numbers are beyond compute.

1776 S. Johnson Let. 4 Apr. (1992) II. 318 With encrease of delight past compute to use the phrase of Cumberland.

1857 R. G. Latham Prichard's Eastern Origin Celtic Nations 372 My obligations to his learning..are beyond compute.

1939 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 60 415 In the compute of his consular years, therefore, 585 A.D..was designated as [etc.].

1992 Relig. & Amer. Culture 2 225 To Baldwin, the modern world's debt to Israel was beyond compute.

†b. Estimation, judgement, assessment. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun]

weenc888

rightnessOE

steemc1330

sight1362

witc1374

emprisea1393

reputation?c1400

apprizingc1449

nick?a1450

vail1471

countc1475

opinionc1480

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meting1548

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valuation1548

computation1558

account1583

cess1588

esteem1598

appreciation1605

resentiment1606

repute1610

ratea1616

assessmenta1626

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supputation1643

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value1651

resentment1655

contemplation1673

critique1798

appraisement1808

appraisal1817

viewa1854

sizing up1967

chit1989

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxv. 178 A Glow-worme will afford a faint light, almost a dayes space when many will conceive it dead; but this is a mistake in the compute of death, and terme of disanimation.

1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen 75 In the compute and judgment of that all-righteous minde.

a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) Ded. sig. E8 If we make our computes like Men, and do not suffer our selves to be abused by the flatteries of sense.

1686 Love's Posie xxv. 144 For, upon the whole compute, do you think, that the Pleasures and Charms of Paris cannot blot out my mind the horrours and cruelties.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

computev.

Brit.

/kəmˈpjuːt/, U.S.

/kəmˈpjut/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French computer; Latin computāre.

Etymology: < Middle French computer to calculate (1595; French computer ; compare Anglo-Norman computer to add up to) and its etymon classical Latin computāre to calculate, reckon, to count up, to include in reckoning, in post-classical Latin also to estimate, take into consideration (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian) < com- com- prefix + putāre to reckon (see putation n.). Compare Spanish computar (16th cent.), Italian computare (12th cent.). Compare earlier computate v.French computer is a learned borrowing < Latin; for the regular development of the Latin word see count v.

a. transitive. To determine by arithmetical or mathematical reckoning; to calculate, reckon, count. In later use chiefly: to ascertain by a relatively complex calculation or procedure, typically using a computer or calculating machine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > calculate or solve [verb (transitive)]

rimeeOE

calcule1377

numbera1382

accounta1387

casta1400

calk1401

computate1449

suppute?a1475

reckona1513

to cast up1539

yield1542

supputate1555

practise?a1560

calculate1570

compute1579

work1582

quantulate1610

resolve1613

find1714

to work out1719

solve1737

to figure out1854

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)]

rimeeOE

arimec885

atellc885

talec897

i-telle971

tellOE

readc1225

reckon?c1225

aima1375

numbera1382

denumber1382

accounta1393

casta1400

countc1400

umberc1400

ascribe1432

annumerate?a1475

to sum upa1475

annumbera1500

ennumber1535

reckon?1537

tally1542

compute1579

recount1581

rate1599

catalogize1602

to add up1611

suma1616

enumeratea1649

numerate1657

to run up1830

to figure out1834

figure1854

to count up1872

enumer1936

1579 A. Munday Mirrour Mutabilitie ii. sig. I.iijv If men respect their fickle date of time, Now in delight, then drownd in dark annoy, Computing Age with their vnbrideled time, Of all estates how brittle is their Ioy.

1605 R. Dallington Suruey Great Dukes State Tuscany 38 Now by buying such an infinite Masse, and selling it at such a rate, the gaine is easily computed to be almost as many Duckets as were Staia bought.

1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. iv. 69 Looking vpon a Tree, and computing what may euery way be made of the same, allowing the wast.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §71. 315 They compute their numbers, as the Græcians do, by letters.

1672 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 254 His loss is generally computed to near 400 lb.

1712 Spectator No. 408. 1/1 To settle the Distance of the Planets, and compute the Times of their Circumvolutions.

1733 J. Swift Thoughts on Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc. I. 304 Three great Ministers, who could exactly compute..the Accompts of a Kingdom, but were wholly ignorant of their own Œconomy.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xvii. 434 Its most ordinary breadth may be computed at about one mile and a half.

1799 W. Butler Wrongs Unterwalden Pref. p. v Compute, if ye can, the wrongs and miseries of a people, suddenly despoiled of all their accumulated fruits.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vi. 58 The radii of curvature for these lenses, as computed by Mr. Herschel.

1846 Times 18 Aug. 6/3 A student of statistics, i.e. a man who computes and analyses everything that relates to the visible state or condition of man.

1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xxxix. 617 But now compute Thy deeds unwise, thy wasted times and means.

1925 M. de K. Thompson Theor. & Appl. Electrochem. i. i. 6 The current can be computed from the quantity of electricity that has passed through the circuit, if the current has been constant and if the time is measured.

1946 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. 1/7 ‘Eniac’..computes a mathematical problem 1,000 times faster than it has ever been done before.

1964 F. Chichester Lonely Sea & Sky (1967) xvi. 180 I uncased the slide rule, and computed the sun's true bearing.

1996 D. F. Wallace Supposedly Fun Thing (1997) 236 No CPU yet existent could compute the expansion of variables for even a single exchange.

b. transitive. In wider sense: to take account of, take into consideration; to apprehend; to consider. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > take notice of, heed [verb (transitive)] > take into account, consider

thinka1225

reckona1375

aima1382

allowa1382

considerc1385

accounta1393

regard1512

impute1532

respect1548

to consider of1569

compute1604

to consult with1639

to take into (the) account1660

consult1682

consult for1814

to factor in1964

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)]

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ween971

takec1175

weigha1200

deem?c1225

judge?c1225

guessc1330

reta1382

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ponder?a1400

adjudgec1440

reckonc1440

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ponderate?a1475

poisea1483

trutinate1528

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rate?1555

sense1564

compute1604

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cast1606

cense1606

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audit1655

state1671

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esteem1711

appraise1823

figure1854

tally1860

revalue1894

lowball1973

1604 J. Burges in W. Covell Briefe Answer (1606) 67 No peece of the Seruice must giue way to a Sermon, or any other respect, which computed with the accessorie occasions of Christinings, Buryals, mariages, and Communions..doth necessarily pretend..a consequence of diuorsing Preaching.

1648 R. Crashaw Delights Muses (ed. 2) 58 Ripe as those rich composures time computes Blossoms, but our blest tast confesses fruits.

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vii. 667 As he computed the business, he apprehended..either Syllaces recoverie, or Zenophon's increasing Armie, would cast him into the same despair.

1662 Life & Death Mrs. Mary Frith 52 I could never disgest this disgrace, though I computed with my self that I was not born to live without them.

1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 147 What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

1803 W. H. Ireland Rhapsodies 194 If we may compute aright, Far better I should know What men would say.

1871 W. E. Channing Wanderer v. 79 Thus are they filled with wisdom who compute The sea as their companion.

1903 H. James Ambassadors viii. 111 There was no computing at all what the young man before him would think or feel or say on any subject whatever.

2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) iv. 51 I was not..accustomed to sleeping on a blow-up bed in a foreign country, particularly not while trying to compute the fact that I was ‘at home’.

c. transitive. With infinitive clause as complement.

ΚΠ

1649 Declar. Parl. expressing Grounds Late Proc. 18 For that one Exaction of the Court, called Purveyance..it hath been lately computed to cost the Countrey more in one year, then their Assessments to the Army.

1664 J. Howell Προεδρια-Βασιλικη 52 Evry Dish at Court was computed to cost the King viis & modis at the years end 100 l. a dish.

1724 J. Swift Let. to Mr. Harding 4 The Souls in this Kingdom are computed to be One Million and a Half.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. iv. ii. 14 The Sum which he computed to remain in the Lady's Pocket.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xiii. 41 Malaga was computed to contain from eleven to fifteen thousand inhabitants.

1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) iv. xix. 166 The total area of dry land..has been computed to amount to fifty-two millions of square miles.

1917 E. P. Oberholtzer Hist. U. S. since Civil War I. iv. 245 The rate of production [of sewing machines] in that year was computed to be 1000 a day at an average cost to the purchaser of $60 each.

1999 A. D. Aczel God's Equation xv. 202 The probability that the conclusion is wrong was computed to be less than one in a million.

†d. transitive. poetic. To make up, comprise. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > amount to or total

makeOE

amountc1350

be?c1425

draw1425

numbera1450

numbera1586

to sum up1597

give1634

mount1639

tantamount1659

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subtotal1906

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 580 As they move Thir S[t]arry dance in numbers that compute Days, months, and years.

a1683 J. Oldham Remains in Verse & Prose 58 in Wks. & Remains (1684) Thou heretofore deserv'dst such Praise, When Acts of Goodness did compute thy days, Measur'd not by the Sun's, but thine own kinder Rays.

1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad I. i. 22 During the period that computes a day, Fierce rush the tempests with impetuous sway.

†e. transitive. To include in reckoning, count in. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > include [verb (transitive)] > in a class, description, or reckoning

accounta1464

lap1552

include1575

shroud1593

comprise1597

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distribute1664

to run over ——1724

immerse1734

group1759

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classify1854

count1857

to ring in1916

1818 New Ann. Reg. 1817 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 191/1 The error of the right honourable gentleman seemed to be, that he had computed the same sum twice.

a. intransitive. To make computation; to calculate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > mathematize [verb (intransitive)] > calculate or solve mathematical problem

reckon1340

calk1398

workc1400

compute1634

supputate1680

prove1862

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 161 As we compute from our Sauiours Natiuitie.

1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana i. i. 12 Now compute well, for if the interest of popular Government come the nearest unto the interest of mankind, then the reason of popular Government must come the nearest unto right reason.

1686 E. Arwaker Pia Desideria (1712) ii. xiv. 909 Till weary grown, computing in my Mind.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iv. 70 And computing by the Scale, measured it pretty exactly.

a1795 S. Bishop Poet. Wks. (1796) I. 129 Finger on thumb, computing, numb'ring, nodding.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 368 In silver payments..it was common to compute by weight.

1946 J. W. Mauchly in Moore School Lect. (1985) 271 To ask that a single machine combine the abilities to compute and to sort might seem like asking that a single device be able to perform both as a can opener and a fountain pen.

1988 Amer. Antiq. 53 662/1 Actually, our ancestors did compute without a zero.

†b. intransitive. To count upon; to reckon on (something), or to (do something). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (transitive)] > rely on

to presume on, upon, or of?a1475

reckon1547

lot1633

compute1674

count1711

to look to ——1782

to bargain for1801

calculate1802

to figure on or upon1904

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (intransitive)] > reckon on

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reckona1450

to make account1583

account1587

to make state1691

compute1772

1674 R. L'Estrange Disc. Fishery iii. 6 Hitchcock computes upon 80000. l. to be furnished by 40. persons out of every County.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 58 There must be..no computing upon Favours.

1701 J. Collier tr. T. Gataker Prelim. Disc. 16 If Men would think a little before-hand, and compute upon the Consequences of a Debauch.

1772 Birmingham Counterfeit I. 253 Travelling all night, we computed to arrive there by sun-rise.

†3. transitive. to compute (a person) out of: to drive out of by computation. Obsolete.

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1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France ii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 219 The calculators compute them out of their senses.

4. intransitive. colloquial and humorous. With negative: to be impossible for a computer to process logically; (hence) to make no sense, to be irrational or bewildering.‘That does not compute’ was a catchphrase (spoken by the character Rhoda, an android) in the U.S. television series My Living Doll, first broadcast in 1964.Often attributed to or used in imitation of the speech of an automaton or machine.

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1964 B. Slade My Living Doll (CBS TV script) 27 Aug. 9 Bob. Rhoda, you're an electronic genius. Rhoda. I'm an electronic genius. Bob. And so adaptable. One minute the world's greatest secretary and the next..the perfect love machine. Rhoda. Love machine. That doesn't compute.

1967 College Composition & Commun. 18 13/1 I fear that the generative model of the future might accidentally come up with an e. e. cummings poem..but that the doorman will reject it and consign it to deep-structure oblivion with a cold and metallic ‘That does not compute.’

1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 25 Aug. Lights flash. The booth shakes. ‘Does not compute,’ the computerized voting booth tells the man. ‘A vote for Gore cancels out a vote for Reagan.’

1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) i. 23 Rob just wasn't programmed for it. It did not compute.

2004 Guardian 30 Mar. i. 19/5 Divorce: bad! Homosexual partnerships: unnatural! Divorcing homosexuals..emergency! Will not compute! Help, hair on fire!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	compute
释义	computen. Brit. /kəmˈpjuːt/, U.S. /kəmˈpjut/ Forms: late Middle English– compute; also Scottish pre-1700 comput. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin computus. Etymology: < classical Latin computus computus n. Compare Anglo-Norman compot , compost , comput (12th cent. in sense 1), Middle French, French comput (1584), Spanish cómputo (1590), Italian computo (a1348). Compare compute v., and earlier compot n., computist n. N.E.D. (1891) assumes stress on the first syllable in sense 1, but there is apparently no conclusive evidence for this. †1. = computus n. 2. Obsolete. compute manual n. [after post-classical Latin computus manualis (12th cent.)] Obsolete a medieval treatise on the art of reckoning on the hands the dates of Church feasts, etc., which contains many mnemonic nonsense-verses. (In the verse referred to in quot. 1533, Adam degebat ergo cifos adrifos (sic), the 12 syllables stand for the 12 months.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] calendarc1340 calends1470 reckoningc1480 compute1483 compost1535 ephemeris1597 computus1675 year count1894 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > table compute manual1483 tariff1591 sexagenary table1594 table of multiplication1594 long measure1623 scale of numbers1630 Rudolphine Tables1635 multiplication table1657 chiliad1675 sexagesimal table1685 nautical card1700 pence table1706 numeration tablea1743 tablebook1755 ready reckoner1757 calculator1784 tables1828 times table1902 log tablec1935 the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical calculation > [noun] > astronomical tables Arzachel's tablesa1400 collect yearsc1405 Toletan tablesc1405 compute1483 compost1535 regimenta1544 Prutenic tables1599 Prutenics1603 horoscopea1656 computus1675 Alfonsines1710 solar tables1812 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) v. i. f. lxxxxij He that made this compute and the kalendre. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. viii. f. ccvii^v The commen verse of the compute manuell. 2. a. Reckoning, calculation, computation; an instance of this. In later use chiefly in beyond compute. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > action of calculating or counting accountc1300 numberingc1325 telling1340 calculingc1374 countingc1380 accountinga1387 summinga1387 calculation1393 count?a1400 computationc1425 reckoningc1425 numeration?a1475 supputation?a1475 compute1531 calcule1601 summing up1607 computing1629 subduction1656 enumerating1864 headcount1913 1531 in D. Laing Reg. Domus de Soltre (1861) 100 Begynnand to the compute off his bountay the tuenti-thua daye of Aprile yheirly. 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 19 According to the historical Computes euen of sundry these fauorites. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 213 Which..makes 26. dayes and 22. howres, called by Physitians the medicall month; introduced by Galen..for the better compute of Decretory or Criticall dayes. View more context for this quotation 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) ii. ii. 45 Any new pressure..cannot come into compute in this case. 1705 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. I (1863) iv. 146 The expenses I have been at, which..by a modest compute comes to 100l. ready moneys. 1721 Some Observ. conc. Plague 9 They increase so prodigiously, that their Numbers are beyond compute. 1776 S. Johnson Let. 4 Apr. (1992) II. 318 With encrease of delight past compute to use the phrase of Cumberland. 1857 R. G. Latham Prichard's Eastern Origin Celtic Nations 372 My obligations to his learning..are beyond compute. 1939 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 60 415 In the compute of his consular years, therefore, 585 A.D..was designated as [etc.]. 1992 Relig. & Amer. Culture 2 225 To Baldwin, the modern world's debt to Israel was beyond compute. †b. Estimation, judgement, assessment. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] weenc888 rightnessOE steemc1330 sight1362 witc1374 emprisea1393 reputation?c1400 apprizingc1449 nick?a1450 vail1471 countc1475 opinionc1480 estimationc1522 meting1548 reckoning1548 valuation1548 computation1558 account1583 cess1588 esteem1598 appreciation1605 resentiment1606 repute1610 ratea1616 assessmenta1626 estimate1637 vote1639 supputation1643 compute1646 value1651 resentment1655 contemplation1673 critique1798 appraisement1808 appraisal1817 viewa1854 sizing up1967 chit1989 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxv. 178 A Glow-worme will afford a faint light, almost a dayes space when many will conceive it dead; but this is a mistake in the compute of death, and terme of disanimation. View more context for this quotation 1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen 75 In the compute and judgment of that all-righteous minde. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) Ded. sig. E8 If we make our computes like Men, and do not suffer our selves to be abused by the flatteries of sense. 1686 Love's Posie xxv. 144 For, upon the whole compute, do you think, that the Pleasures and Charms of Paris cannot blot out my mind the horrours and cruelties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). computev. Brit. /kəmˈpjuːt/, U.S. /kəmˈpjut/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French computer; Latin computāre. Etymology: < Middle French computer to calculate (1595; French computer ; compare Anglo-Norman computer to add up to) and its etymon classical Latin computāre to calculate, reckon, to count up, to include in reckoning, in post-classical Latin also to estimate, take into consideration (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian) < com- com- prefix + putāre to reckon (see putation n.). Compare Spanish computar (16th cent.), Italian computare (12th cent.). Compare earlier computate v.French computer is a learned borrowing < Latin; for the regular development of the Latin word see count v. 1. a. transitive. To determine by arithmetical or mathematical reckoning; to calculate, reckon, count. In later use chiefly: to ascertain by a relatively complex calculation or procedure, typically using a computer or calculating machine. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > calculate or solve [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE calcule1377 numbera1382 accounta1387 casta1400 calk1401 computate1449 suppute?a1475 reckona1513 to cast up1539 yield1542 supputate1555 practise?a1560 calculate1570 compute1579 work1582 quantulate1610 resolve1613 find1714 to work out1719 solve1737 to figure out1854 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE arimec885 atellc885 talec897 i-telle971 tellOE readc1225 reckon?c1225 aima1375 numbera1382 denumber1382 accounta1393 casta1400 countc1400 umberc1400 ascribe1432 annumerate?a1475 to sum upa1475 annumbera1500 ennumber1535 reckon?1537 tally1542 compute1579 recount1581 rate1599 catalogize1602 to add up1611 suma1616 enumeratea1649 numerate1657 to run up1830 to figure out1834 figure1854 to count up1872 enumer1936 1579 A. Munday Mirrour Mutabilitie ii. sig. I.iijv If men respect their fickle date of time, Now in delight, then drownd in dark annoy, Computing Age with their vnbrideled time, Of all estates how brittle is their Ioy. 1605 R. Dallington Suruey Great Dukes State Tuscany 38 Now by buying such an infinite Masse, and selling it at such a rate, the gaine is easily computed to be almost as many Duckets as were Staia bought. 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. iv. 69 Looking vpon a Tree, and computing what may euery way be made of the same, allowing the wast. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §71. 315 They compute their numbers, as the Græcians do, by letters. 1672 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 254 His loss is generally computed to near 400 lb. 1712 Spectator No. 408. 1/1 To settle the Distance of the Planets, and compute the Times of their Circumvolutions. 1733 J. Swift Thoughts on Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc. I. 304 Three great Ministers, who could exactly compute..the Accompts of a Kingdom, but were wholly ignorant of their own Œconomy. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xvii. 434 Its most ordinary breadth may be computed at about one mile and a half. 1799 W. Butler Wrongs Unterwalden Pref. p. v Compute, if ye can, the wrongs and miseries of a people, suddenly despoiled of all their accumulated fruits. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vi. 58 The radii of curvature for these lenses, as computed by Mr. Herschel. 1846 Times 18 Aug. 6/3 A student of statistics, i.e. a man who computes and analyses everything that relates to the visible state or condition of man. 1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xxxix. 617 But now compute Thy deeds unwise, thy wasted times and means. 1925 M. de K. Thompson Theor. & Appl. Electrochem. i. i. 6 The current can be computed from the quantity of electricity that has passed through the circuit, if the current has been constant and if the time is measured. 1946 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. 1/7 ‘Eniac’..computes a mathematical problem 1,000 times faster than it has ever been done before. 1964 F. Chichester Lonely Sea & Sky (1967) xvi. 180 I uncased the slide rule, and computed the sun's true bearing. 1996 D. F. Wallace Supposedly Fun Thing (1997) 236 No CPU yet existent could compute the expansion of variables for even a single exchange. b. transitive. In wider sense: to take account of, take into consideration; to apprehend; to consider. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > take notice of, heed [verb (transitive)] > take into account, consider thinka1225 reckona1375 aima1382 allowa1382 considerc1385 accounta1393 regard1512 impute1532 respect1548 to consider of1569 compute1604 to consult with1639 to take into (the) account1660 consult1682 consult for1814 to factor in1964 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] talec897 ween971 takec1175 weigha1200 deem?c1225 judge?c1225 guessc1330 reta1382 accounta1387 aretc1386 assize1393 consider1398 ponder?a1400 adjudgec1440 reckonc1440 peisec1460 ponderate?a1475 poisea1483 trutinate1528 steem1535 rate?1555 sense1564 compute1604 censure1605 cast1606 cense1606 estimate1651 audit1655 state1671 balance1692 esteem1711 appraise1823 figure1854 tally1860 revalue1894 lowball1973 1604 J. Burges in W. Covell Briefe Answer (1606) 67 No peece of the Seruice must giue way to a Sermon, or any other respect, which computed with the accessorie occasions of Christinings, Buryals, mariages, and Communions..doth necessarily pretend..a consequence of diuorsing Preaching. 1648 R. Crashaw Delights Muses (ed. 2) 58 Ripe as those rich composures time computes Blossoms, but our blest tast confesses fruits. 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vii. 667 As he computed the business, he apprehended..either Syllaces recoverie, or Zenophon's increasing Armie, would cast him into the same despair. 1662 Life & Death Mrs. Mary Frith 52 I could never disgest this disgrace, though I computed with my self that I was not born to live without them. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 147 What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. 1803 W. H. Ireland Rhapsodies 194 If we may compute aright, Far better I should know What men would say. 1871 W. E. Channing Wanderer v. 79 Thus are they filled with wisdom who compute The sea as their companion. 1903 H. James Ambassadors viii. 111 There was no computing at all what the young man before him would think or feel or say on any subject whatever. 2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) iv. 51 I was not..accustomed to sleeping on a blow-up bed in a foreign country, particularly not while trying to compute the fact that I was ‘at home’. c. transitive. With infinitive clause as complement. ΚΠ 1649 Declar. Parl. expressing Grounds Late Proc. 18 For that one Exaction of the Court, called Purveyance..it hath been lately computed to cost the Countrey more in one year, then their Assessments to the Army. 1664 J. Howell Προεδρια-Βασιλικη 52 Evry Dish at Court was computed to cost the King viis & modis at the years end 100 l. a dish. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Mr. Harding 4 The Souls in this Kingdom are computed to be One Million and a Half. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. iv. ii. 14 The Sum which he computed to remain in the Lady's Pocket. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xiii. 41 Malaga was computed to contain from eleven to fifteen thousand inhabitants. 1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) iv. xix. 166 The total area of dry land..has been computed to amount to fifty-two millions of square miles. 1917 E. P. Oberholtzer Hist. U. S. since Civil War I. iv. 245 The rate of production [of sewing machines] in that year was computed to be 1000 a day at an average cost to the purchaser of $60 each. 1999 A. D. Aczel God's Equation xv. 202 The probability that the conclusion is wrong was computed to be less than one in a million. †d. transitive. poetic. To make up, comprise. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > amount to or total makeOE amountc1350 be?c1425 draw1425 numbera1450 numbera1586 to sum up1597 give1634 mount1639 tantamount1659 compute1667 muster1810 total1859 subtotal1906 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 580 As they move Thir S[t]arry dance in numbers that compute Days, months, and years. View more context for this quotation a1683 J. Oldham Remains in Verse & Prose 58 in Wks. & Remains (1684) Thou heretofore deserv'dst such Praise, When Acts of Goodness did compute thy days, Measur'd not by the Sun's, but thine own kinder Rays. 1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad I. i. 22 During the period that computes a day, Fierce rush the tempests with impetuous sway. †e. transitive. To include in reckoning, count in. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > include [verb (transitive)] > in a class, description, or reckoning accounta1464 lap1552 include1575 shroud1593 comprise1597 list1622 classicate1654 classa1658 distribute1664 to run over ——1724 immerse1734 group1759 compute1818 classify1854 count1857 to ring in1916 1818 New Ann. Reg. 1817 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 191/1 The error of the right honourable gentleman seemed to be, that he had computed the same sum twice. 2. a. intransitive. To make computation; to calculate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > mathematize [verb (intransitive)] > calculate or solve mathematical problem reckon1340 calk1398 workc1400 compute1634 supputate1680 prove1862 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 161 As we compute from our Sauiours Natiuitie. 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana i. i. 12 Now compute well, for if the interest of popular Government come the nearest unto the interest of mankind, then the reason of popular Government must come the nearest unto right reason. 1686 E. Arwaker Pia Desideria (1712) ii. xiv. 909 Till weary grown, computing in my Mind. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iv. 70 And computing by the Scale, measured it pretty exactly. a1795 S. Bishop Poet. Wks. (1796) I. 129 Finger on thumb, computing, numb'ring, nodding. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 368 In silver payments..it was common to compute by weight. 1946 J. W. Mauchly in Moore School Lect. (1985) 271 To ask that a single machine combine the abilities to compute and to sort might seem like asking that a single device be able to perform both as a can opener and a fountain pen. 1988 Amer. Antiq. 53 662/1 Actually, our ancestors did compute without a zero. †b. intransitive. To count upon; to reckon on (something), or to (do something). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (transitive)] > rely on to presume on, upon, or of?a1475 reckon1547 lot1633 compute1674 count1711 to look to ——1782 to bargain for1801 calculate1802 to figure on or upon1904 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (intransitive)] > reckon on agessec1300 reckona1450 to make account1583 account1587 to make state1691 compute1772 1674 R. L'Estrange Disc. Fishery iii. 6 Hitchcock computes upon 80000. l. to be furnished by 40. persons out of every County. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 58 There must be..no computing upon Favours. 1701 J. Collier tr. T. Gataker Prelim. Disc. 16 If Men would think a little before-hand, and compute upon the Consequences of a Debauch. 1772 Birmingham Counterfeit I. 253 Travelling all night, we computed to arrive there by sun-rise. †3. transitive. to compute (a person) out of: to drive out of by computation. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France ii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 219 The calculators compute them out of their senses. 4. intransitive. colloquial and humorous. With negative: to be impossible for a computer to process logically; (hence) to make no sense, to be irrational or bewildering.‘That does not compute’ was a catchphrase (spoken by the character Rhoda, an android) in the U.S. television series My Living Doll, first broadcast in 1964.Often attributed to or used in imitation of the speech of an automaton or machine. ΚΠ 1964 B. Slade My Living Doll (CBS TV script) 27 Aug. 9 Bob. Rhoda, you're an electronic genius. Rhoda. I'm an electronic genius. Bob. And so adaptable. One minute the world's greatest secretary and the next..the perfect love machine. Rhoda. Love machine. That doesn't compute. 1967 College Composition & Commun. 18 13/1 I fear that the generative model of the future might accidentally come up with an e. e. cummings poem..but that the doorman will reject it and consign it to deep-structure oblivion with a cold and metallic ‘That does not compute.’ 1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 25 Aug. Lights flash. The booth shakes. ‘Does not compute,’ the computerized voting booth tells the man. ‘A vote for Gore cancels out a vote for Reagan.’ 1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) i. 23 Rob just wasn't programmed for it. It did not compute. 2004 Guardian 30 Mar. i. 19/5 Divorce: bad! Homosexual partnerships: unnatural! Divorcing homosexuals..emergency! Will not compute! Help, hair on fire! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1483v.1579
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