Definition of guess in English:

guess

verb ɡɛsɡɛs

[with object]

1Estimate or conclude (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct.
猜测；推测
she guessed the child's age at 14 or 15
她猜那孩子约有十四五岁。
with clause he took her aside and I guessed that he was offering her a job
他把她带到一边，我想他要给她提供一份工作。
no object we can only guess at Alan's motives
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm guessing the author doesn't know how much she has in common with me.
- I'm guessing the networks are already quietly preparing to open their own web services for this purpose.
- I am guessing that none of this makes any sense to those of you who are not from Georgia or the South, so allow me to explain the behavior of my people.
- Judging from the moon's angle overhead, she guessed it was past midnight already.
- I'm thinking ‘probably not’ and guessing it would be a pointless and frustrating distraction to both you and me.
- Judging from the dust and general disrepair Xander guessed it hadn't been used in years.
- I'm guessing it's something to do with his cold, black heart, although maybe that's unfair.
- I haven't counted how much I received so far yet, but I'm guessing wallets are light and belts are tightening.
- One of us is wrong, and I'm guessing it might be me.
- The informant laughed when he told her, so she guessed it must be someone important.
- Although I haven't got the facts to hand, I'm guessing most pundits would also have predicted an up year for the market in 2001.
- It'll be six months since I moved into the new place - which has crept up on me - and I'm guessing it's a year since my housemate moved in.
- But I'm guessing the pictures on the screens and most of the reportage in the papers is nothing to do with morals or politics.
- I wasn't sure who she directed the comment to but I was guessing it was Max.
- It was well good, you get lots of freebies, just a shame I'm not a big chocolate person, but I'm guessing TP will be very grateful for them.
- Plus I'm guessing it'll be populated by wannabe hard nuts.
- A note especially to ladies and gay men: when a guy guesses your age, always add four years to his estimate, because that's the age he thinks you really are.
- Given the functional illiteracy on either side of it, I'm guessing it was a half-understood attempt to find a rhyme for a line that makes no sense anyway.
- I have no idea whether you need a visa for Russia, either, so would need to get that sorted out first and I'm guessing the beginning of February might be too soon.
- I'm guessing contracts involved dumptrucks full of money for everyone involved to do such a project.
Synonyms
estimate, calculate, approximate, make a guess at, make an estimate of
hypothesize, postulate, predict, speculate, conjecture, surmise, reckon, fathom
evaluate, judge, gauge, determine, rate, appraise, weigh up, form an opinion of
informal guesstimate, size up
1. 1.1 Form a correct conclusion about (something) by guessing.
  with clause she's guessed where we're going
  她已猜出我们要去哪里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So now, even worms try to guess the passwords we keep on these machines.
  It's time to take the casket out of the church, and you guessed it, it weighs a ton!
  Instead they think of ways to get your data without randomly guessing the password.
  They are there instead of plying their trade on the streets expecting to meet, you've guessed it, a foreigner.
  She never imagined that anyone would guess that password but it seems they did.
  As you may have guessed by now I believe adoption is a good course of action for many teenage mums.
  You can guess whose graves these are, so I won't say it.
  Instead of guessing the score, you recited your imaginary measurements!
  Only I know, but I'll give a part to whoever guesses the correct answer.
  It's easy to guess the inevitable response because people are genuinely predictable.
  I still haven't told my family, although I suspect they've already guessed.
  The person who correctly guessed the number of balls in Sue's desk won a ticket to the final of the European Championship in Lisbon.
  Whoever guesses the correct code will win the necklace, which is 18 carat white gold and set with a 0.3-carat diamond.
  Anyone who has ever watched romantic comedies can probably guess how the rest of this gem of a movie develops.
  Yup, you guessed it, they wanted more information from me and I've had my telepathy switched off so I didn't know.
  Five of you managed to guess two numbers correctly, but alas nobody got three or more right.
  I am sure you can guess the verdict; jaw-dropping effects and cringeworthy dialogue.
  We tend to assume that because we can guess the name of some very popular sites that the naming scheme works and makes sense.
  We are then asked to guess her bra size from a number of options.
  I just discovered that it is the perfect size for a bottle of… yes, you guessed it.
2. 1.2I guessinformal Used to indicate that although one thinks or supposes something, it is without any great conviction or strength of feeling.
  〈非正式〉想，认为（表示尽管有某种想法，但没有确信或强烈的感觉）
  with clause I guess I'd better tell you everything
  我想我最好把一切都告诉你。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So I guess that by about 2020 the politicians will be taking half our money off us in taxes.
  I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title.
  I guess it also gave him a chance to judge our skills in different situations.
  I guess the secret is making sure that you have fabulously large sunglasses and a means of capturing events.
  I guess the most intriguing information I would have to share would be insight to your host.
  I guess it's easy to criticise America and I'm sure the UK is no better in many respects.
  It is a good method of getting people to donate in the leadup to election day I guess.
  Well I guess calling it by its real name here can't do any harm compared to this.
  I guess it's time to fix my mortgage rate, which I should have done earlier.
  History, I guess, will tell if our efforts prove enough or not for our World Cup chances.
  I guess the answer is to get this information out there so people can't ignore it any more.
  Ah well, I guess many of us are stupid and cynical and don't think things through when we are young.
  You are free, I guess, to take your pick in relation to these and similar options.
  Overall, I guess the most interesting part of the film was the attending audience.
  So I guess this is probably a good time to do an entry on the birthday celebrations.
  I guess only time and my son's evolving temperament will determine what I should do.
  So I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album.
  So I guess it is time to go and rest my head on the pillow, and let unconsciousness drown those thoughts.
  So I guess I owe it to myself not to wash any of the colour out of the telling.
  Its primary purpose, I guess, is to plug her books, but it contains quite a lot of other stuff.
  Synonyms
  suppose, think, believe, imagine, expect, assume, presume, judge, consider, feel, suspect, dare say, fancy, divine, deem, conjecture, surmise, conclude, hazard a guess, be of the opinion, be given to understand
  North American figure
  informal reckon

noun ɡɛsɡɛs

An estimate or conclusion formed by guessing.
my guess is that within a year we will have a referendum
我的猜测是我们会在一年内进行公民公决。
Example sentencesExamples
- Estimates on the death toll are a guess as of now, but will probably be in excess of 10,000.
- My guess is that there used to be flights at that stage directly from New Zealand.
- This is because we have to make guesses, judgments, and assumptions about who other people are and what they want.
- On paper both teams are equally balanced and to predict the winner is your guess is as good as mine.
- Without complete designs for these projects, cost estimates are only wild guesses.
- Obviously, no one knows what the numbers or weights are - we can only make guesses, and we can argue about the assumptions underlying those guesses.
- The projections are only guesses, based on assumptions that workers will be with the company their entire careers and will receive annual raises.
- In contrast, a government that commits to the consequences of various actions on emissions can only hope that its estimates, or guesses, are on target, and so can its partners.
- Judgment is the ability to combine hard data, questionable data, and intuitive guesses to arrive at a conclusion that events prove to be correct.
- It allows, even encourages, inventive guesses, strange coincidences, popular theories with or without evidence.
- And an evaluation of these environmental variables would save us from a wrong guess here.
- To what extent was it based on estimates, guesses and interpretations, however well-founded?
- Is anybody going to solve the theory and make a guess to what exactly is going on?
- However, my best guesses are nothing compared to the insights of someone who actually manages to pull off good service.
- They make guesses, set up provisional theories about what things mean, or how they might be expressed, and modify them in the light of experience.
- But until now estimates of the shark harvest were little more than guesses, because the numbers depended on shark fishers to report their catches.
- First of all, my guess is we'll hear Premiers bickering over health funding within a year.
- Well, there are lots of guesses out there, but it's hard to predict with any degree of accuracy.
- What we do is quite the reverse: that we form theories, or if that is too sophisticated a word, we make guesses, we have hunches and we test these guesses and hunches and theories against reality.
- The trouble with this is that many of the available numbers are guesses described as estimates.
Synonyms
hypothesis, theory, prediction, postulation, conjecture
conclusion, belief, opinion, surmise, estimate, reckoning, judgement, supposition, assumption, speculation, notion, suspicion, impression, feeling
informal guesstimate

Phrases

anybody's (or anyone's) guess

Very difficult or impossible to determine.
很难确定；谁都拿不准
how well the system will work is anybody's guess
这一系统的运行效果如何，谁也拿不准。
Example sentencesExamples
- What to do about this imbalance is anyone's guess; but it does exist.
- Whether she can maintain the form and the focus until the US Open is anyone's guess but at least she knows that she is a champion again.
- This Christmas it was a bridge replacement, so whether things will be running on time tomorrow morning is anyone's guess.
- How the markets will react in the weeks ahead is anyone's guess however.
- Now, it's anyone's guess who was the intended target of his verbal charge.
- It is anyone's guess if Easter Sunday will be resurrection day for him.
- Whether anyone will develop on the new land is anyone's guess.
- Although, again, why she was bothering with him is anyone's guess.
- How many Pittsburghers will know what they really are celebrating is anyone's guess.
- Some of these will make fortunes for their directors and some will not, but it's anyone's guess which will thrive and which will fail.

keep someone guessing

informal Leave someone uncertain or in doubt as to one's intentions or plans.
〈非正式〉使（某人）捉摸不透自己的意图（或计划）
Example sentencesExamples
- This was intentionally to keep you guessing, which by itself isn't a bad thing.
- To some extent I think it's the playwright's intention to keep us guessing.
- But they were kept guessing by the weather until the day itself, with heavy rain falling during the days in the run-up to the event.
- I am confident it meant something, though what it was kept me guessing.
- I was disappointed - they should have kept us guessing.
- The plot kept me guessing and I didn't see the twist end coming at all - which is extremely rare…
- But there was one booth in particular that kept me guessing.
- Here, it was a citrus sauce with a packet-mix consistency and overpowering artificial flavourings that kept me guessing.
- Here, the agenda is wrapped up quite nicely in a complex relationship that keeps us guessing about Alice's true intentions.
- But she kept them guessing, only confirming her presence after winning last weekend's Irish championship.

Derivatives

guessable

adjective ˈɡɛsəb(ə)lˈɡɛsəb(ə)l

The servers have not been maintained properly and the selection of passwords (many had default passwords or easily guessable passwords) was irresponsible and showed a complete lack of attention to security.
Example sentencesExamples
- The promised metaphysical delights turn out to be pretty guessable from the trailer, and they don't really do all that much with the idea once it's out in the open.
- There's nothing whatsoever guessable about the Finnish language.
- The other is easily guessable from the cover design.
- I hate to think that audiences like old, dumb, and easily guessable jokes.

guesser

noun

In reality, of course, such people are just good guessers.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the event the first prize winner is also the closest with the tiebreaker, out of all the entries, then the runners up prize will go to the next closest guesser.
- In short, the fraction of survey respondents who really knew the right answer, and weren't just lucky guessers, is probably less than a quarter.
- Why it appears in such a sunny work I leave to better guessers.
- There's a clue in the painting above as to my destination, correct guessers will receive the usual part-furnished bedsit in Tottenham Hale.

Origin

Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch gissen, and probably related to get.

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes

Definition of guess in US English:

guess

verbɡɛsɡes

[with object]

1Estimate or suppose (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct.
猜测；推测
she guessed the child's age to be 14 or 15
她猜那孩子约有十四五岁。
with clause he took her aside and I guessed that he was offering her a job
他把她带到一边，我想他要给她提供一份工作。
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm guessing contracts involved dumptrucks full of money for everyone involved to do such a project.
- Judging from the moon's angle overhead, she guessed it was past midnight already.
- I haven't counted how much I received so far yet, but I'm guessing wallets are light and belts are tightening.
- But I'm guessing the pictures on the screens and most of the reportage in the papers is nothing to do with morals or politics.
- I'm guessing the networks are already quietly preparing to open their own web services for this purpose.
- Plus I'm guessing it'll be populated by wannabe hard nuts.
- Given the functional illiteracy on either side of it, I'm guessing it was a half-understood attempt to find a rhyme for a line that makes no sense anyway.
- A note especially to ladies and gay men: when a guy guesses your age, always add four years to his estimate, because that's the age he thinks you really are.
- Judging from the dust and general disrepair Xander guessed it hadn't been used in years.
- It'll be six months since I moved into the new place - which has crept up on me - and I'm guessing it's a year since my housemate moved in.
- I have no idea whether you need a visa for Russia, either, so would need to get that sorted out first and I'm guessing the beginning of February might be too soon.
- I am guessing that none of this makes any sense to those of you who are not from Georgia or the South, so allow me to explain the behavior of my people.
- I wasn't sure who she directed the comment to but I was guessing it was Max.
- It was well good, you get lots of freebies, just a shame I'm not a big chocolate person, but I'm guessing TP will be very grateful for them.
- I'm thinking ‘probably not’ and guessing it would be a pointless and frustrating distraction to both you and me.
- The informant laughed when he told her, so she guessed it must be someone important.
- I'm guessing it's something to do with his cold, black heart, although maybe that's unfair.
- Although I haven't got the facts to hand, I'm guessing most pundits would also have predicted an up year for the market in 2001.
- One of us is wrong, and I'm guessing it might be me.
- I'm guessing the author doesn't know how much she has in common with me.
Synonyms
estimate, calculate, approximate, make a guess at, make an estimate of
1. 1.1guess at Make a conjecture about.
  推测
  their motives he could only guess at
  他只能去推测的他们的动机。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Is he just guessing at something, or is something going on that I should know about?
  This is either gross incompetence or was done with dark ulterior motives that can scarcely be guessed at.
  As a consequence, the numbers of Muslims in France can only be guessed at.
  The movie can turn only so much of it into voice-over or dialogue; the rest we have to guess at.
  So, some people guessed at a number of eligible voters, and the number of registrations exceeded that guess.
  To be on the Left, you have to be amazingly certain about things you're guessing at, and I felt like a phony.
  The entire thing suggests a more complex story which can only be guessed at.
  Suddenly, I'm transported back to 1991 (I'm guessing at the year).
  Anyway, I'm just guessing at the reasons here, but I think there really is a difference.
  And we judge each other by the words before us - not seeing the face, knowing the race, guessing at age, gender, place, politics, religion, ethnicity.
  When he inspects the matzo ball, he is actually sizing up his competitor, guessing at the density of the core, and determining how much jaw strength he'll need for the match.
  I bought three, for 25 bucks each, guessing at the sizes - small for me; small for Jay, my older brother by four years; and medium for Terry, my younger brother by four years.
  As to what I want, I'll let you keep guessing at it.
  Perhaps guessing at what fate awaits Stephen as an artist is less important than seeing the decisions a young person must make in order to commit himself or herself to the idea of life as an artist.
  Ana looked out the window, guessing at the time.
  It's a somewhat somber mood piece where the real ‘end’ can only be guessed at, imagined, just as we guess at the resolutions to our own lives at any given moment.
  But I always felt uncertain about my stories about schools, as though I were guessing at what was really happening inside them.
  On the other hand, it's not clear whether the memo was reporting the casinos' expressed motivations, or was just guessing at the motives.
  A lot of these kids are just guessing at what is good and making bad judgments, but if they only had someone to direct them, everything would be different.
  One more thing, I'm just guessing at last names here.
2. 1.2 Correctly conjecture or perceive.
  猜中，猜出
  with clause she's guessed where we're going
  她已猜出我们要去哪里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yup, you guessed it, they wanted more information from me and I've had my telepathy switched off so I didn't know.
  Whoever guesses the correct code will win the necklace, which is 18 carat white gold and set with a 0.3-carat diamond.
  I still haven't told my family, although I suspect they've already guessed.
  The person who correctly guessed the number of balls in Sue's desk won a ticket to the final of the European Championship in Lisbon.
  I just discovered that it is the perfect size for a bottle of… yes, you guessed it.
  We tend to assume that because we can guess the name of some very popular sites that the naming scheme works and makes sense.
  So now, even worms try to guess the passwords we keep on these machines.
  We are then asked to guess her bra size from a number of options.
  Instead they think of ways to get your data without randomly guessing the password.
  Only I know, but I'll give a part to whoever guesses the correct answer.
  As you may have guessed by now I believe adoption is a good course of action for many teenage mums.
  You can guess whose graves these are, so I won't say it.
  It's easy to guess the inevitable response because people are genuinely predictable.
  Anyone who has ever watched romantic comedies can probably guess how the rest of this gem of a movie develops.
  Instead of guessing the score, you recited your imaginary measurements!
  I am sure you can guess the verdict; jaw-dropping effects and cringeworthy dialogue.
  She never imagined that anyone would guess that password but it seems they did.
  It's time to take the casket out of the church, and you guessed it, it weighs a ton!
  Five of you managed to guess two numbers correctly, but alas nobody got three or more right.
  They are there instead of plying their trade on the streets expecting to meet, you've guessed it, a foreigner.
3. 1.3I guessinformal Used to indicate that although one thinks or supposes something, it is without any great conviction or strength of feeling.
  〈非正式〉想，认为（表示尽管有某种想法，但没有确信或强烈的感觉）
  with clause I guess I'd better tell you everything
  我想我最好把一切都告诉你。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You are free, I guess, to take your pick in relation to these and similar options.
  It is a good method of getting people to donate in the leadup to election day I guess.
  Its primary purpose, I guess, is to plug her books, but it contains quite a lot of other stuff.
  History, I guess, will tell if our efforts prove enough or not for our World Cup chances.
  I guess the secret is making sure that you have fabulously large sunglasses and a means of capturing events.
  I guess the most intriguing information I would have to share would be insight to your host.
  Well I guess calling it by its real name here can't do any harm compared to this.
  So I guess this is probably a good time to do an entry on the birthday celebrations.
  So I guess I owe it to myself not to wash any of the colour out of the telling.
  So I guess that by about 2020 the politicians will be taking half our money off us in taxes.
  I guess the answer is to get this information out there so people can't ignore it any more.
  So I guess it is time to go and rest my head on the pillow, and let unconsciousness drown those thoughts.
  I guess only time and my son's evolving temperament will determine what I should do.
  So I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album.
  Ah well, I guess many of us are stupid and cynical and don't think things through when we are young.
  Overall, I guess the most interesting part of the film was the attending audience.
  I guess it's easy to criticise America and I'm sure the UK is no better in many respects.
  I guess it's time to fix my mortgage rate, which I should have done earlier.
  I guess it also gave him a chance to judge our skills in different situations.
  I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title.
  Synonyms
  suppose, think, believe, imagine, expect, assume, presume, judge, consider, feel, suspect, dare say, fancy, divine, deem, conjecture, surmise, conclude, hazard a guess, be of the opinion, be given to understand

nounɡɛsɡes

An estimate or conjecture.
猜测；推测
my guess is that within a year we will have a referendum
我的猜测是我们会在一年内进行公民公决。
Example sentencesExamples
- In contrast, a government that commits to the consequences of various actions on emissions can only hope that its estimates, or guesses, are on target, and so can its partners.
- Well, there are lots of guesses out there, but it's hard to predict with any degree of accuracy.
- Obviously, no one knows what the numbers or weights are - we can only make guesses, and we can argue about the assumptions underlying those guesses.
- Without complete designs for these projects, cost estimates are only wild guesses.
- First of all, my guess is we'll hear Premiers bickering over health funding within a year.
- To what extent was it based on estimates, guesses and interpretations, however well-founded?
- My guess is that there used to be flights at that stage directly from New Zealand.
- On paper both teams are equally balanced and to predict the winner is your guess is as good as mine.
- And an evaluation of these environmental variables would save us from a wrong guess here.
- However, my best guesses are nothing compared to the insights of someone who actually manages to pull off good service.
- Estimates on the death toll are a guess as of now, but will probably be in excess of 10,000.
- Judgment is the ability to combine hard data, questionable data, and intuitive guesses to arrive at a conclusion that events prove to be correct.
- It allows, even encourages, inventive guesses, strange coincidences, popular theories with or without evidence.
- This is because we have to make guesses, judgments, and assumptions about who other people are and what they want.
- What we do is quite the reverse: that we form theories, or if that is too sophisticated a word, we make guesses, we have hunches and we test these guesses and hunches and theories against reality.
- Is anybody going to solve the theory and make a guess to what exactly is going on?
- The trouble with this is that many of the available numbers are guesses described as estimates.
- But until now estimates of the shark harvest were little more than guesses, because the numbers depended on shark fishers to report their catches.
- The projections are only guesses, based on assumptions that workers will be with the company their entire careers and will receive annual raises.
- They make guesses, set up provisional theories about what things mean, or how they might be expressed, and modify them in the light of experience.
Synonyms
hypothesis, theory, prediction, postulation, conjecture

Phrases

anybody's (or anyone's) guess

Very difficult or impossible to determine.
很难确定；谁都拿不准
how well the system will work is anybody's guess
这一系统的运行效果如何，谁也拿不准。
Example sentencesExamples
- How many Pittsburghers will know what they really are celebrating is anyone's guess.
- Whether she can maintain the form and the focus until the US Open is anyone's guess but at least she knows that she is a champion again.
- Some of these will make fortunes for their directors and some will not, but it's anyone's guess which will thrive and which will fail.
- It is anyone's guess if Easter Sunday will be resurrection day for him.
- Although, again, why she was bothering with him is anyone's guess.
- This Christmas it was a bridge replacement, so whether things will be running on time tomorrow morning is anyone's guess.
- How the markets will react in the weeks ahead is anyone's guess however.
- What to do about this imbalance is anyone's guess; but it does exist.
- Whether anyone will develop on the new land is anyone's guess.
- Now, it's anyone's guess who was the intended target of his verbal charge.

keep someone guessing

informal Leave someone uncertain or in doubt as to one's intentions or plans.
〈非正式〉使（某人）捉摸不透自己的意图（或计划）
Example sentencesExamples
- To some extent I think it's the playwright's intention to keep us guessing.
- The plot kept me guessing and I didn't see the twist end coming at all - which is extremely rare…
- Here, the agenda is wrapped up quite nicely in a complex relationship that keeps us guessing about Alice's true intentions.
- I am confident it meant something, though what it was kept me guessing.
- I was disappointed - they should have kept us guessing.
- This was intentionally to keep you guessing, which by itself isn't a bad thing.
- But she kept them guessing, only confirming her presence after winning last weekend's Irish championship.
- Here, it was a citrus sauce with a packet-mix consistency and overpowering artificial flavourings that kept me guessing.
- But they were kept guessing by the weather until the day itself, with heavy rain falling during the days in the run-up to the event.
- But there was one booth in particular that kept me guessing.

Origin

Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch gissen, and probably related to get.

单词	guess
释义	Definition of guess in English: guess verb ɡɛsɡɛs [with object] 1Estimate or conclude (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct. 猜测；推测 she guessed the child's age at 14 or 15 她猜那孩子约有十四五岁。 with clause he took her aside and I guessed that he was offering her a job 他把她带到一边，我想他要给她提供一份工作。 no object we can only guess at Alan's motives Example sentencesExamples I'm guessing the author doesn't know how much she has in common with me. I'm guessing the networks are already quietly preparing to open their own web services for this purpose. I am guessing that none of this makes any sense to those of you who are not from Georgia or the South, so allow me to explain the behavior of my people. Judging from the moon's angle overhead, she guessed it was past midnight already. I'm thinking ‘probably not’ and guessing it would be a pointless and frustrating distraction to both you and me. Judging from the dust and general disrepair Xander guessed it hadn't been used in years. I'm guessing it's something to do with his cold, black heart, although maybe that's unfair. I haven't counted how much I received so far yet, but I'm guessing wallets are light and belts are tightening. One of us is wrong, and I'm guessing it might be me. The informant laughed when he told her, so she guessed it must be someone important. Although I haven't got the facts to hand, I'm guessing most pundits would also have predicted an up year for the market in 2001. It'll be six months since I moved into the new place - which has crept up on me - and I'm guessing it's a year since my housemate moved in. But I'm guessing the pictures on the screens and most of the reportage in the papers is nothing to do with morals or politics. I wasn't sure who she directed the comment to but I was guessing it was Max. It was well good, you get lots of freebies, just a shame I'm not a big chocolate person, but I'm guessing TP will be very grateful for them. Plus I'm guessing it'll be populated by wannabe hard nuts. A note especially to ladies and gay men: when a guy guesses your age, always add four years to his estimate, because that's the age he thinks you really are. Given the functional illiteracy on either side of it, I'm guessing it was a half-understood attempt to find a rhyme for a line that makes no sense anyway. I have no idea whether you need a visa for Russia, either, so would need to get that sorted out first and I'm guessing the beginning of February might be too soon. I'm guessing contracts involved dumptrucks full of money for everyone involved to do such a project. Synonyms estimate, calculate, approximate, make a guess at, make an estimate of hypothesize, postulate, predict, speculate, conjecture, surmise, reckon, fathom evaluate, judge, gauge, determine, rate, appraise, weigh up, form an opinion of informal guesstimate, size up 1.1 Form a correct conclusion about (something) by guessing. with clause she's guessed where we're going 她已猜出我们要去哪里。 Example sentencesExamples So now, even worms try to guess the passwords we keep on these machines. It's time to take the casket out of the church, and you guessed it, it weighs a ton! Instead they think of ways to get your data without randomly guessing the password. They are there instead of plying their trade on the streets expecting to meet, you've guessed it, a foreigner. She never imagined that anyone would guess that password but it seems they did. As you may have guessed by now I believe adoption is a good course of action for many teenage mums. You can guess whose graves these are, so I won't say it. Instead of guessing the score, you recited your imaginary measurements! Only I know, but I'll give a part to whoever guesses the correct answer. It's easy to guess the inevitable response because people are genuinely predictable. I still haven't told my family, although I suspect they've already guessed. The person who correctly guessed the number of balls in Sue's desk won a ticket to the final of the European Championship in Lisbon. Whoever guesses the correct code will win the necklace, which is 18 carat white gold and set with a 0.3-carat diamond. Anyone who has ever watched romantic comedies can probably guess how the rest of this gem of a movie develops. Yup, you guessed it, they wanted more information from me and I've had my telepathy switched off so I didn't know. Five of you managed to guess two numbers correctly, but alas nobody got three or more right. I am sure you can guess the verdict; jaw-dropping effects and cringeworthy dialogue. We tend to assume that because we can guess the name of some very popular sites that the naming scheme works and makes sense. We are then asked to guess her bra size from a number of options. I just discovered that it is the perfect size for a bottle of… yes, you guessed it. 1.2I guessinformal Used to indicate that although one thinks or supposes something, it is without any great conviction or strength of feeling. 〈非正式〉想，认为（表示尽管有某种想法，但没有确信或强烈的感觉） with clause I guess I'd better tell you everything 我想我最好把一切都告诉你。 Example sentencesExamples So I guess that by about 2020 the politicians will be taking half our money off us in taxes. I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title. I guess it also gave him a chance to judge our skills in different situations. I guess the secret is making sure that you have fabulously large sunglasses and a means of capturing events. I guess the most intriguing information I would have to share would be insight to your host. I guess it's easy to criticise America and I'm sure the UK is no better in many respects. It is a good method of getting people to donate in the leadup to election day I guess. Well I guess calling it by its real name here can't do any harm compared to this. I guess it's time to fix my mortgage rate, which I should have done earlier. History, I guess, will tell if our efforts prove enough or not for our World Cup chances. I guess the answer is to get this information out there so people can't ignore it any more. Ah well, I guess many of us are stupid and cynical and don't think things through when we are young. You are free, I guess, to take your pick in relation to these and similar options. Overall, I guess the most interesting part of the film was the attending audience. So I guess this is probably a good time to do an entry on the birthday celebrations. I guess only time and my son's evolving temperament will determine what I should do. So I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album. So I guess it is time to go and rest my head on the pillow, and let unconsciousness drown those thoughts. So I guess I owe it to myself not to wash any of the colour out of the telling. Its primary purpose, I guess, is to plug her books, but it contains quite a lot of other stuff. Synonyms suppose, think, believe, imagine, expect, assume, presume, judge, consider, feel, suspect, dare say, fancy, divine, deem, conjecture, surmise, conclude, hazard a guess, be of the opinion, be given to understand North American figure informal reckon noun ɡɛsɡɛs An estimate or conclusion formed by guessing. my guess is that within a year we will have a referendum 我的猜测是我们会在一年内进行公民公决。 Example sentencesExamples Estimates on the death toll are a guess as of now, but will probably be in excess of 10,000. My guess is that there used to be flights at that stage directly from New Zealand. This is because we have to make guesses, judgments, and assumptions about who other people are and what they want. On paper both teams are equally balanced and to predict the winner is your guess is as good as mine. Without complete designs for these projects, cost estimates are only wild guesses. Obviously, no one knows what the numbers or weights are - we can only make guesses, and we can argue about the assumptions underlying those guesses. The projections are only guesses, based on assumptions that workers will be with the company their entire careers and will receive annual raises. In contrast, a government that commits to the consequences of various actions on emissions can only hope that its estimates, or guesses, are on target, and so can its partners. Judgment is the ability to combine hard data, questionable data, and intuitive guesses to arrive at a conclusion that events prove to be correct. It allows, even encourages, inventive guesses, strange coincidences, popular theories with or without evidence. And an evaluation of these environmental variables would save us from a wrong guess here. To what extent was it based on estimates, guesses and interpretations, however well-founded? Is anybody going to solve the theory and make a guess to what exactly is going on? However, my best guesses are nothing compared to the insights of someone who actually manages to pull off good service. They make guesses, set up provisional theories about what things mean, or how they might be expressed, and modify them in the light of experience. But until now estimates of the shark harvest were little more than guesses, because the numbers depended on shark fishers to report their catches. First of all, my guess is we'll hear Premiers bickering over health funding within a year. Well, there are lots of guesses out there, but it's hard to predict with any degree of accuracy. What we do is quite the reverse: that we form theories, or if that is too sophisticated a word, we make guesses, we have hunches and we test these guesses and hunches and theories against reality. The trouble with this is that many of the available numbers are guesses described as estimates. Synonyms hypothesis, theory, prediction, postulation, conjecture conclusion, belief, opinion, surmise, estimate, reckoning, judgement, supposition, assumption, speculation, notion, suspicion, impression, feeling informal guesstimate Phrases anybody's (or anyone's) guess Very difficult or impossible to determine. 很难确定；谁都拿不准 how well the system will work is anybody's guess 这一系统的运行效果如何，谁也拿不准。 Example sentencesExamples What to do about this imbalance is anyone's guess; but it does exist. Whether she can maintain the form and the focus until the US Open is anyone's guess but at least she knows that she is a champion again. This Christmas it was a bridge replacement, so whether things will be running on time tomorrow morning is anyone's guess. How the markets will react in the weeks ahead is anyone's guess however. Now, it's anyone's guess who was the intended target of his verbal charge. It is anyone's guess if Easter Sunday will be resurrection day for him. Whether anyone will develop on the new land is anyone's guess. Although, again, why she was bothering with him is anyone's guess. How many Pittsburghers will know what they really are celebrating is anyone's guess. Some of these will make fortunes for their directors and some will not, but it's anyone's guess which will thrive and which will fail. keep someone guessing informal Leave someone uncertain or in doubt as to one's intentions or plans. 〈非正式〉使（某人）捉摸不透自己的意图（或计划） Example sentencesExamples This was intentionally to keep you guessing, which by itself isn't a bad thing. To some extent I think it's the playwright's intention to keep us guessing. But they were kept guessing by the weather until the day itself, with heavy rain falling during the days in the run-up to the event. I am confident it meant something, though what it was kept me guessing. I was disappointed - they should have kept us guessing. The plot kept me guessing and I didn't see the twist end coming at all - which is extremely rare… But there was one booth in particular that kept me guessing. Here, it was a citrus sauce with a packet-mix consistency and overpowering artificial flavourings that kept me guessing. Here, the agenda is wrapped up quite nicely in a complex relationship that keeps us guessing about Alice's true intentions. But she kept them guessing, only confirming her presence after winning last weekend's Irish championship. Derivatives guessable adjective ˈɡɛsəb(ə)lˈɡɛsəb(ə)l The servers have not been maintained properly and the selection of passwords (many had default passwords or easily guessable passwords) was irresponsible and showed a complete lack of attention to security. Example sentencesExamples The promised metaphysical delights turn out to be pretty guessable from the trailer, and they don't really do all that much with the idea once it's out in the open. There's nothing whatsoever guessable about the Finnish language. The other is easily guessable from the cover design. I hate to think that audiences like old, dumb, and easily guessable jokes. guesser noun In reality, of course, such people are just good guessers. Example sentencesExamples In the event the first prize winner is also the closest with the tiebreaker, out of all the entries, then the runners up prize will go to the next closest guesser. In short, the fraction of survey respondents who really knew the right answer, and weren't just lucky guessers, is probably less than a quarter. Why it appears in such a sunny work I leave to better guessers. There's a clue in the painting above as to my destination, correct guessers will receive the usual part-furnished bedsit in Tottenham Hale. Origin Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch gissen, and probably related to get. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes verb.1 phr. Definition of guess in US English: guess verbɡɛsɡes [with object] 1Estimate or suppose (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct. 猜测；推测 she guessed the child's age to be 14 or 15 她猜那孩子约有十四五岁。 with clause he took her aside and I guessed that he was offering her a job 他把她带到一边，我想他要给她提供一份工作。 Example sentencesExamples I'm guessing contracts involved dumptrucks full of money for everyone involved to do such a project. Judging from the moon's angle overhead, she guessed it was past midnight already. I haven't counted how much I received so far yet, but I'm guessing wallets are light and belts are tightening. But I'm guessing the pictures on the screens and most of the reportage in the papers is nothing to do with morals or politics. I'm guessing the networks are already quietly preparing to open their own web services for this purpose. Plus I'm guessing it'll be populated by wannabe hard nuts. Given the functional illiteracy on either side of it, I'm guessing it was a half-understood attempt to find a rhyme for a line that makes no sense anyway. A note especially to ladies and gay men: when a guy guesses your age, always add four years to his estimate, because that's the age he thinks you really are. Judging from the dust and general disrepair Xander guessed it hadn't been used in years. It'll be six months since I moved into the new place - which has crept up on me - and I'm guessing it's a year since my housemate moved in. I have no idea whether you need a visa for Russia, either, so would need to get that sorted out first and I'm guessing the beginning of February might be too soon. I am guessing that none of this makes any sense to those of you who are not from Georgia or the South, so allow me to explain the behavior of my people. I wasn't sure who she directed the comment to but I was guessing it was Max. It was well good, you get lots of freebies, just a shame I'm not a big chocolate person, but I'm guessing TP will be very grateful for them. I'm thinking ‘probably not’ and guessing it would be a pointless and frustrating distraction to both you and me. The informant laughed when he told her, so she guessed it must be someone important. I'm guessing it's something to do with his cold, black heart, although maybe that's unfair. Although I haven't got the facts to hand, I'm guessing most pundits would also have predicted an up year for the market in 2001. One of us is wrong, and I'm guessing it might be me. I'm guessing the author doesn't know how much she has in common with me. Synonyms estimate, calculate, approximate, make a guess at, make an estimate of 1.1guess at Make a conjecture about. 推测 their motives he could only guess at 他只能去推测的他们的动机。 Example sentencesExamples Is he just guessing at something, or is something going on that I should know about? This is either gross incompetence or was done with dark ulterior motives that can scarcely be guessed at. As a consequence, the numbers of Muslims in France can only be guessed at. The movie can turn only so much of it into voice-over or dialogue; the rest we have to guess at. So, some people guessed at a number of eligible voters, and the number of registrations exceeded that guess. To be on the Left, you have to be amazingly certain about things you're guessing at, and I felt like a phony. The entire thing suggests a more complex story which can only be guessed at. Suddenly, I'm transported back to 1991 (I'm guessing at the year). Anyway, I'm just guessing at the reasons here, but I think there really is a difference. And we judge each other by the words before us - not seeing the face, knowing the race, guessing at age, gender, place, politics, religion, ethnicity. When he inspects the matzo ball, he is actually sizing up his competitor, guessing at the density of the core, and determining how much jaw strength he'll need for the match. I bought three, for 25 bucks each, guessing at the sizes - small for me; small for Jay, my older brother by four years; and medium for Terry, my younger brother by four years. As to what I want, I'll let you keep guessing at it. Perhaps guessing at what fate awaits Stephen as an artist is less important than seeing the decisions a young person must make in order to commit himself or herself to the idea of life as an artist. Ana looked out the window, guessing at the time. It's a somewhat somber mood piece where the real ‘end’ can only be guessed at, imagined, just as we guess at the resolutions to our own lives at any given moment. But I always felt uncertain about my stories about schools, as though I were guessing at what was really happening inside them. On the other hand, it's not clear whether the memo was reporting the casinos' expressed motivations, or was just guessing at the motives. A lot of these kids are just guessing at what is good and making bad judgments, but if they only had someone to direct them, everything would be different. One more thing, I'm just guessing at last names here. 1.2 Correctly conjecture or perceive. 猜中，猜出 with clause she's guessed where we're going 她已猜出我们要去哪里。 Example sentencesExamples Yup, you guessed it, they wanted more information from me and I've had my telepathy switched off so I didn't know. Whoever guesses the correct code will win the necklace, which is 18 carat white gold and set with a 0.3-carat diamond. I still haven't told my family, although I suspect they've already guessed. The person who correctly guessed the number of balls in Sue's desk won a ticket to the final of the European Championship in Lisbon. I just discovered that it is the perfect size for a bottle of… yes, you guessed it. We tend to assume that because we can guess the name of some very popular sites that the naming scheme works and makes sense. So now, even worms try to guess the passwords we keep on these machines. We are then asked to guess her bra size from a number of options. Instead they think of ways to get your data without randomly guessing the password. Only I know, but I'll give a part to whoever guesses the correct answer. As you may have guessed by now I believe adoption is a good course of action for many teenage mums. You can guess whose graves these are, so I won't say it. It's easy to guess the inevitable response because people are genuinely predictable. Anyone who has ever watched romantic comedies can probably guess how the rest of this gem of a movie develops. Instead of guessing the score, you recited your imaginary measurements! I am sure you can guess the verdict; jaw-dropping effects and cringeworthy dialogue. She never imagined that anyone would guess that password but it seems they did. It's time to take the casket out of the church, and you guessed it, it weighs a ton! Five of you managed to guess two numbers correctly, but alas nobody got three or more right. They are there instead of plying their trade on the streets expecting to meet, you've guessed it, a foreigner. 1.3I guessinformal Used to indicate that although one thinks or supposes something, it is without any great conviction or strength of feeling. 〈非正式〉想，认为（表示尽管有某种想法，但没有确信或强烈的感觉） with clause I guess I'd better tell you everything 我想我最好把一切都告诉你。 Example sentencesExamples You are free, I guess, to take your pick in relation to these and similar options. It is a good method of getting people to donate in the leadup to election day I guess. Its primary purpose, I guess, is to plug her books, but it contains quite a lot of other stuff. History, I guess, will tell if our efforts prove enough or not for our World Cup chances. I guess the secret is making sure that you have fabulously large sunglasses and a means of capturing events. I guess the most intriguing information I would have to share would be insight to your host. Well I guess calling it by its real name here can't do any harm compared to this. So I guess this is probably a good time to do an entry on the birthday celebrations. So I guess I owe it to myself not to wash any of the colour out of the telling. So I guess that by about 2020 the politicians will be taking half our money off us in taxes. I guess the answer is to get this information out there so people can't ignore it any more. So I guess it is time to go and rest my head on the pillow, and let unconsciousness drown those thoughts. I guess only time and my son's evolving temperament will determine what I should do. So I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album. Ah well, I guess many of us are stupid and cynical and don't think things through when we are young. Overall, I guess the most interesting part of the film was the attending audience. I guess it's easy to criticise America and I'm sure the UK is no better in many respects. I guess it's time to fix my mortgage rate, which I should have done earlier. I guess it also gave him a chance to judge our skills in different situations. I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title. Synonyms suppose, think, believe, imagine, expect, assume, presume, judge, consider, feel, suspect, dare say, fancy, divine, deem, conjecture, surmise, conclude, hazard a guess, be of the opinion, be given to understand nounɡɛsɡes An estimate or conjecture. 猜测；推测 my guess is that within a year we will have a referendum 我的猜测是我们会在一年内进行公民公决。 Example sentencesExamples In contrast, a government that commits to the consequences of various actions on emissions can only hope that its estimates, or guesses, are on target, and so can its partners. Well, there are lots of guesses out there, but it's hard to predict with any degree of accuracy. Obviously, no one knows what the numbers or weights are - we can only make guesses, and we can argue about the assumptions underlying those guesses. Without complete designs for these projects, cost estimates are only wild guesses. First of all, my guess is we'll hear Premiers bickering over health funding within a year. To what extent was it based on estimates, guesses and interpretations, however well-founded? My guess is that there used to be flights at that stage directly from New Zealand. On paper both teams are equally balanced and to predict the winner is your guess is as good as mine. And an evaluation of these environmental variables would save us from a wrong guess here. However, my best guesses are nothing compared to the insights of someone who actually manages to pull off good service. Estimates on the death toll are a guess as of now, but will probably be in excess of 10,000. Judgment is the ability to combine hard data, questionable data, and intuitive guesses to arrive at a conclusion that events prove to be correct. It allows, even encourages, inventive guesses, strange coincidences, popular theories with or without evidence. This is because we have to make guesses, judgments, and assumptions about who other people are and what they want. What we do is quite the reverse: that we form theories, or if that is too sophisticated a word, we make guesses, we have hunches and we test these guesses and hunches and theories against reality. Is anybody going to solve the theory and make a guess to what exactly is going on? The trouble with this is that many of the available numbers are guesses described as estimates. But until now estimates of the shark harvest were little more than guesses, because the numbers depended on shark fishers to report their catches. The projections are only guesses, based on assumptions that workers will be with the company their entire careers and will receive annual raises. They make guesses, set up provisional theories about what things mean, or how they might be expressed, and modify them in the light of experience. Synonyms hypothesis, theory, prediction, postulation, conjecture Phrases anybody's (or anyone's) guess Very difficult or impossible to determine. 很难确定；谁都拿不准 how well the system will work is anybody's guess 这一系统的运行效果如何，谁也拿不准。 Example sentencesExamples How many Pittsburghers will know what they really are celebrating is anyone's guess. Whether she can maintain the form and the focus until the US Open is anyone's guess but at least she knows that she is a champion again. Some of these will make fortunes for their directors and some will not, but it's anyone's guess which will thrive and which will fail. It is anyone's guess if Easter Sunday will be resurrection day for him. Although, again, why she was bothering with him is anyone's guess. This Christmas it was a bridge replacement, so whether things will be running on time tomorrow morning is anyone's guess. How the markets will react in the weeks ahead is anyone's guess however. What to do about this imbalance is anyone's guess; but it does exist. Whether anyone will develop on the new land is anyone's guess. Now, it's anyone's guess who was the intended target of his verbal charge. keep someone guessing informal Leave someone uncertain or in doubt as to one's intentions or plans. 〈非正式〉使（某人）捉摸不透自己的意图（或计划） Example sentencesExamples To some extent I think it's the playwright's intention to keep us guessing. The plot kept me guessing and I didn't see the twist end coming at all - which is extremely rare… Here, the agenda is wrapped up quite nicely in a complex relationship that keeps us guessing about Alice's true intentions. I am confident it meant something, though what it was kept me guessing. I was disappointed - they should have kept us guessing. This was intentionally to keep you guessing, which by itself isn't a bad thing. But she kept them guessing, only confirming her presence after winning last weekend's Irish championship. Here, it was a citrus sauce with a packet-mix consistency and overpowering artificial flavourings that kept me guessing. But they were kept guessing by the weather until the day itself, with heavy rain falling during the days in the run-up to the event. But there was one booth in particular that kept me guessing. Origin Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch gissen, and probably related to get. verb.1 phr.
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