What's the difference between conjecture and guessingly?
Conjecture
Definition:
(n.) An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
(v. t.) To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
(v. i.) To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenomenon is conjectured to be caused by the ear's nonlinear compressive transfer characteristic or by a temporal analysis of the stimulus.
(2) We conjecture that postmenopausal and involutional osteoporosis were far advanced before the development of acromegaly, explaining the coexistence of the two conditions.
(3) Now that we know the practice is widespread among physicians in training, we can conjecture that the demand for improper reporting of diagnostic data by sonographers is likely widespread among physicians in practice also.
(4) In connection with this conjecture, the redistribution of blood flow and O2 quantity by hypothermal exposure were calculated using the same circulation model as used in normothermal embryos.
(5) However, the mechanism by which this tolerance develops is currently a matter of conjecture.
(6) A quote from Peter Greste originally stated: "… we have spent three months in prison based on substantiated allegations and conjecture …".
(7) This conjecture was, however, not supported by analyses that considered the positive control compound and a pure chemical as possible reference assays.
(8) We consider two mechanisms to obviate the diffusion limitation problem, and conjecture that at high substrate concentration, H(2)CO(3) reaches the active site by collision with the enzyme molecule, and subsequent surface diffusion to the active site.
(9) It is conjectured that these behavioral qualities may be universal for emotionally healthy individuals and that future research with larger samples may bear this out.
(10) Such specific binding of parasite proteins to immobilised Band-3 supports recent conjecture as to its role as a host receptor during parasite invasion.
(11) I examine the conjecture that the signal for this regulation is the ratio of uncharged tRNA to aminoacyl-tRNA, that this signal controls the concentration of guanosine tetraphosphate, and that the concentration of guanosine tetraphosphate controls transcription of rrn genes.
(12) However, the idiotype expression was not simply related to total immunoglobulin levels and the controlling mechanisms of idiotype expression on different isotypes remain a matter of conjecture.
(13) If the positions of the principal points of the crystalline lens are conjectured, its equivalent power and that of the eye can be calculated as described from ocular dioptrics.
(14) It’s irresponsible and unscientific to make conjectural, trumped-up allegations without deep investigation.” “The FBI is conducting an investigation to identify how and why this occurred,” the department of homeland security said in a statement on Thursday.
(15) There has been much recent conjecture over the apparent source location of the visually evoked potential, particularly in considering the lateralization found in halffield pattern reversal stimulation.
(16) Alternative explanations for its effectiveness remain conjectural.
(17) Since, in equal concentrations, menthol specifically impairs neuronal calcium currents, the results are consistent with the conjecture that in cold receptors, menthol reduces the activation of a calcium-stimulated outward current by an impeding effect on a calcium conductance, thereby inducing depolarization and a modification of bursting behavior.
(18) We conjecture that the efficacy of radioimmunoconjugates against responsive cell types may be the result of passive DNA damage by ionizing radiation and the initiation of apoptosis in response to radioimmunotherapy.
(19) But the fact that the ability to create new explanations is the unique, morally and intellectually significant functionality of "people" (humans and AGIs), and that they achieve this functionality by conjecture and criticism, changes everything.
(20) Since nafenopin pretreatment stimulates the synthesis of new liver tissue, it is presently a matter of conjecture as to whether or not the newly formed hepatocytes have the capacity to take up and excrete BP and its metabolites or whether nafenopin inhibits transport in all liver tissue.
Guessingly
Definition:
(adv.) By way of conjecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
(2) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(3) I guess that’s my socialist principles,” says the older woman.
(4) Iowa (10pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.0pt 2008 result: Obama won by 9.4pt 2004 result: Bush won by 0.7pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Polk (+5.1), Scott (+5.0), Woodbury (-10.0) This state is where the primary season begins, and it likes to keep Americans guessing.
(5) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(6) The most serious attack is called offline password guessing.
(7) And Bristol, I guess, is following on because it has an ambition to become something similar.” According to Key, Bristol’s congestion problems are only as bad as those of other UK cities, and it’s “streets ahead” on walking and cycling .
(8) The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p ; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible.
(9) As you might have already guessed, I welcome the "rise of house prices".
(10) I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam.
(11) Robben's penalty was so well placed that it sneaked in despite Casillas's guessing right and almost reaching his own post.
(12) We had a meeting of minds, I guess you’d say,” Whillock told the Guardian.
(13) No precise estimate was availabletoday, but the Tories on a first guess believe spending outside the protected areas will have to fall by 7% over the two years.
(14) David Lengel (@LengelDavid) #Cardinals fans on the road with predictions for G6 #WorldSeries guess who they like tonight?
(15) They have already forced government exporters to sell their dollars, and same will happen for banks I guess, so in a sense, capital controls are already in place,” said Sergei Guriev, an exiled economist who fled Russia after criticising the Kremlin.
(16) With their news and social media interest, they will be noting everything that follows their murderous assault on Paris, and my guess is that right now the chant among them will be “We are winning”.
(17) All these were produced by School 21’s pupils and he invites me to guess the age group; each time, I overestimate by at least two years.
(18) Instructing the subjects to guess or not to guess had an effect of intra-array, displacement, and extra-array errors.
(19) But on the strength of the effort expended on the right royal cover-up thus far, it seems a fair guess that officials and ministers will have given the prince’s letters rather more favourable attention than routine correspondence with a member of the public.
(20) Wang admitted basing his report “on hearsay and his own subjective guesses without conducting due verifications”, Xinhua added.