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Quantify
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is lollygag. Does it mean:
| to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax. |
| to spend time idly; loaf. |
Example Sentences
- Their calculations help to quantify what might have been.
- Electricity theft-revenues lost from illegal connections, unbilled consumption, and non-payment-is difficult to quantify.
- Oddly, however, few people have bothered to try to quantify the reasons why.
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Word Origin & History
quantify
c.1840, as a term in logic, from M.L. quantificare, from L. quantus "how much" + facere "to make" (see factitious). Lit. sense of "determine the quantity of, measure" is from 1878.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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