Calculating vs Inured - What's the difference?
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(especially of a robot) Which has the ability to calculate.
(especially of a person) Which serves one's own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner.
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(inure)
To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
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* 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World
(intransitive, chiefly, legal) To take effect, to be operative.
* Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
Calculating is a related term of inured.
As verbs the difference between calculating and inured
is that calculating is while inured is (inure).As an adjective calculating
is (especially of a robot) which has the ability to calculate.calculating
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(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Following the sentencing, Knutton said: "What sort of person does something so cold and calculating ? I did not expect her to go to jail for it. I am just glad it is now all over."}}
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- To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.
- Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured . / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
- As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.