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Definition of estimate:

  1. A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond.
  2. To from an opinion of, as to amount, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land.
  3. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic ( money), or intrinsic ( moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person.

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omen, pass judgment, judgment, size up, melodic theme, picture, cast, fancy, put, view, foretell, deem, prognosticate, count on, guesstimate, look, pro forma invoice, imagine, estimation, come close, judgment, idea, visualize, regard, gauge, approximation, conjecture, mind, fix, assay, hazard, prove, sum up, appraisement, adjudicate, opine, foreshadow, pretend, see, billing, rating, pronounce, a stab in the dark, place, direct, augur, image, overestimate, reckoning, bringing close together, valuate, speculation, depend, label, mensuration, auspicate, forecast, precise, envision, work out, invoice, prefigure, appraisal, bode, assessment, predict, guesswork, guess, visualise, bet, thought, project, number, aim, judge, musical theme, cipher, bill of exchange, venture, set, valuation, enter, bill of sale, value judgment, add up, cypher, portend, theme, approximate, presage, betoken, try.

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