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# estimate

«estimate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to make a careful guess about an amount, size, cost or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (estimate, estimates, estimated, estimating); noun (an estimate, estimates)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To estimate is to make a careful guess about an amount, size, cost or time, without counting or measuring exactly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#m1)

2) An estimate is the number or answer you get by estimating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths pupils estimate before calculating, by rounding, to check whether an answer is sensible; in science they estimate lengths and numbers; in everyday life people estimate time, cost and distance. Phrases: «estimate the answer», «a rough estimate», «a good estimate», «estimate by rounding».

### examples

- Estimate how many sweets are in the jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#x1)
- 49 + 52 is about 100, so that is a good estimate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#x2)
- My estimate was 30, and the real number was 28. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#x3)
- Builders give an estimate of the cost before they start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#x4)
- Estimate the length of the table, then measure it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#x5)
- We estimated the trip would take an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#x6)
- A rough estimate is fine; you don't need the exact number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#x7)
- The builder and carpenter made an estimate that the new house would cost ten hundred and twenty dollars to build. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/#x8)

### note

The verb ends in «-mate» (rhymes with «gate»); the noun ends in «-mit». An estimate is not a wild guess: it uses known facts and rounding. In maths, an estimate is close to the true answer but not exact; use it to check your working.

### In the corpora

- [Argentinosaurus may have weighed 70 tonnes or more and been about 35 metres long; these sizes are estimates from a few huge bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/6/)
- [To estimate a total, you round each price and add them in your head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/6/)
- [To estimate a total, round each price and add the rounded numbers in your head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/14/)
- [The Earth is about 40,000 km around the equator, and the Greek scholar Eratosthenes estimated this size quite well around 240 BC.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/14/)
- [Real numbers are only estimates, so historians give ranges, not exact counts like a game screen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «estimate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estimate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.