Sentence examples for reckoner from inspiring English sources
Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large for the O.E.D., points out that the Chambers Dictionary, most recently published in 2008, has managed to retain such gems as éclair ("a cake, long in shape but short in duration") and middle-aged ("between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner").
For every percentage point that GDP is lower than expected, public borrowing will be roughly £7.5 billion higher than forecast in the first year, rising to £10 billion higher in the second year, according to the Treasury's ready reckoner.
Nor do firms use the same ready reckoner in calculating just how much carbon planting a tree soaks up.
The Difference Engine was a digital device: it operated on discrete digits rather than smooth quantities, and the digits were decimal (0 9), represented by positions on toothed wheels, rather than the binary digits ("bits") that the German mathematician-philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz had favoured (but did not use) in his Step Reckoner.
Re loathing: In case anyone has forgotten, here is a ready reference reckoner: you've got your three Tories who can do it – Cameron, Hague and Clarke.
WWF's "ready reckoner" sets the total of productive land and sea at about 11.4bn hectares; divide by 6bn (the current world population) and you get the magic number 1.9 hectares per person.
To hold on to the House, the GOP will have to emerge victorious in over three-quarters of the close races and all of the seats currently leaning its way.And if you're losing count of all those scandals, Roll Call kindly compiled a ready-reckoner a week or two back, linked here via the Talking Points Memo Document Collection, .
If the habit spreads, perhaps the market will throw up some sort of ready-reckoner like Gracenotes (the thing that supplies the track-listings when you copy a CD to your iPod) which will spit back a calorie count of every dish you can postulate.In fact, I'm off to register the web site now.And when I've done that, I'm going to get some licence plates made that say "New York: the nanny state".
A ready-reckoner: anywhere specifically geared towards a party will charge between £15 and £20 a head, so even a modestly sized gathering will amount to £200.
If it is not absolutely certain, it is at least convenient, and provides public opinion with a sort of ready-reckoner".
A further range of activities might be grouped under the term "utility publishing"; i.e., the issuing of calendars, diaries, timetables, ready reckoners, guide books, and all manner of informational or directional material, not to mention postcards and greeting cards.
