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# calculated

adjective (calculated); verb form (calculate, calculates, calculated, calculating)

«calculated» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Past form of «calculate»: worked out using numbers: «We calculated the area.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#m1)
2. Carefully planned to get a result, often in a sneaky way: «a calculated lie». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#m2)
3. Meant or likely to do something: «a joke calculated to make him laugh». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#m3)
4. «A calculated risk» is a risk you take after thinking about the chances. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#m4)

### In the lessons

In maths lessons, «calculated» is what you did when you worked out an answer; «show how you calculated it». In stories, a «calculated move» is a clever, planned action by a hero or villain. Phrases: «calculated risk», «carefully calculated».

### Examples

- We calculated the perimeter of the playground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#x1)
- She calculated that the trip would take two hours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#x2)
- His friendliness was calculated; he wanted something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#x3)
- The firefighter took a calculated risk to save the cat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#x4)
- The cost was calculated at £50. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#x5)
- The advert was calculated to make children want the toy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#x6)
- He could think of nothing he had done calculated to stir Uncle Remus's grief. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/#x7)

### Note

Past form of calculate: drop -e, add -ed. «Calculated» about a person's action can sound cold or sneaky; «calculated risk» is neutral. In maths it just means worked out.

## In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it means that Abraham worked things out with numbers as part of making things by letters.

**Interpretation.** The passage tells of Abraham working with numbers, letters and thought, and so creating. The tradition reads this as a picture of man copying God's way of making the world.

### Examples

- "When Abraham our father arose, he looked nnd saw and investigated and observed and engraved and hewed and combin- ed and formed and calculated, and his creation was successful. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/calculated/#x1)

### Note

Past form of calculate: drop -e, add -ed. «Calculated» about a person's action can sound cold or sneaky; «calculated risk» is neutral. In maths it just means worked out.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «calculated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calculated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «calculated» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/calculated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«calculated» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/calculated.html) on Mova free.