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{
"term": "compute",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "compute",
"heSheIt": "computes"
},
"pastSimple": "computed",
"pastParticiple": "computed",
"ingForm": "computing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to calculate something",
"sensetop": "compute something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The losses were computed at £5 million."
},
{
"text": "These measurements can be used to compute the average size."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make sense",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "That just doesn't compute."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpjuːt/",
"audio": "co/compute/compute__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpjuːts/",
"audio": "co/compute/computes__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpjuːtɪd/",
"audio": "co/compute/computed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/",
"audio": "co/compute/computing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpjuːt/",
"audio": "co/compute/compute__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpjuːts/",
"audio": "co/compute/computes__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpjuːtɪd/",
"audio": "co/compute/computed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/",
"audio": "co/compute/computing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from French computer or Latin computare, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’."
}