Estimates and Tells

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Tells is an antonym for estimates.

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Estimates is an antonym for tells.

When Captain Janeway tells her new chief engineer B'Elanna Torres to get a job done in less time than she estimated, B'Elanna proudly tells her that she isn't the kind of engineer who artificially inflates her estimates to make herself look good.

Source: Scotty Time
After this, he estimates his own IQ at 175, and tells the researchers he could "crack 200" if they doubled his drug dosage.

Source: Improbably High I.Q.
Averted in "Relics," Scotty chides Geordi for not padding his estimates, and later tells Geordi that he knows a particular component can take a lot more stress than the regulations say it can - because he wrote the regs, and "A good engineer is always a wee bit conservative...at least on paper."

Source: Explosive Overclocking

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