(v. t.) To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
(v. t.) To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
(v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
(v. t.) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
(v. t.) To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.
(v. i.) To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.
(n.) An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.
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.
Hangman
Definition:
(n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of four hangman's fractures of the axis, three occurred in road accidents and were stable, undisplaced and free of neurological signs, with full recovery after six to twelve weeks in a cervical collar.
(2) In injuries above C 3, we would regard the axis body fracture with or without a hangman's fracture and a fresh fracture-dislocation or pseudoarthrosis of the odontoid process as requiring an operation.
(3) When he was found guilty of contempt of court last year for claims in his bestselling book, Once a Jolly Hangman , his youngest daughter emailed to ask: "Will they hang you Dad?"
(4) We report a three month old infant with a subtle hangman's fracture which might have been confused with primary spondylolysis.
(5) Liberals might shy away from this truth, but to that majority who would bring back the hangman's rope, a whole-life tariff is not "inhuman" punishment but the more moderate alternative.
(6) Of these there were 13 cases of odontoid fractures, 6 hangman fractures, 2 anterior inferior corner fractures, 2 atlas-axis combination fractures and 2 Jefferson fractures.
(7) Fifty years on, the debate over the penalty for murder – what replaces the hangman’s noose – rumbles on.
(8) The similarity between civilian and vehicular injuries was recognized in 1965 by Schneider who, together with his associates, reported eight cases; it was this group who introduced the term "hangman's fracture".
(9) The incidence of fracture was unassociated with drop, date age or hangman.
(10) Its wide indications include fracture-dislocations, compression fractures of the vertebral body, injuries to the disc, luxations, 'tear drop fractures' as well as "hangman's fractures".
(11) Radiographic studies revealed a spectrum of injury beginning with the classical hangman's fracture and progressing to the simple C-2 laminar-pedicle fracture.
(12) Etiologies included os odontoideum, fixed rotatory subluxation, atlantoaxial subluxation, type II dens fracture nonunion, and nonunion of a Hangman's fracture.
(13) The authors review their experience in managing 26 cases of "hangman's fracture."
(14) The various forms of strain which cause the phenomenon of the hangman's fracture are discussed in detail.
(15) The anti-homosexuality bill had been dangled over the heads of gay Ugandans like a hangman's noose for five years.
(16) In 2007, the Sun had carried a frontpage image on polling day likening the SNP's looped logo to a hangman's noose with the words: "Vote SNP today and you put Scotland's head in a noose."
(17) Describing transparency around the process as “fundamentally important” to analyses of an execution’s constitutionality, Bye accused Missouri of hiding “behind the hangman’s cloak”.
(18) The international literature calls "Hangman's fracture" (HF) the injury of the upper cervical spine with characteristic lesions of the epistropheus.
(20) 45% of cases interest the upper cervical spine (C1-C2) with a high proportion of odontoid process fractures (60%) and Hangman's fractures (30%); 54% of cases concern the lower cervical spine (C3-C7) with an important part of fracture-luxation (72%), specially C5-C6 (35%).