(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.
Sanitation
Definition:
(n.) The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(2) Emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is augmented in settings in which treatment may be inadequate because of socioeconomic constraints and where there is crowding and poor sanitation.
(3) Most recommended mastitis control practices were estimated to be economically beneficial; however, using a sanitizer in the washing solution and having a company change the milking machine inflations were not economical.
(4) The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water report published in 2014 highlights that national policies for water and sanitation exist in most developing countries but fall short in two areas: lack of clear targets for universal access, and lack of capacity to implement policies.
(5) The study demonstrates the feasibility of using such an approach to evaluate two levels of water supply and sanitation service quickly and at moderate cost.
(6) Diarrhoea can be prevented by improving communal sanitation and personal hygiene, and by giving breast as opposed to bottle feeding of infants.
(7) Specifically, ECO is in a good position to collaborate on ecological planning, model-building, and research evaluation, while CEPIS is geared to provide advice and assistance in the key field of environmental sanitation.
(8) • The International Medical Corps is recruiting qualified healthcare practitioners, water, sanitation and environmental experts, psychosocial staff and logistics, human resources and finance professionals to work in Ebola treatment units in Sierra Leone and Liberia How to donate to aid agencies and organisations tackling Ebola USAid has collated a list of NGOs responding to Ebola .
(9) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
(10) It would also be helpful to begin a four-decade urban sanitation planning effort along with an "Urban Watch" to promote significant developments in peri-urban settlements.
(11) The complex treatment included antibacterial therapy taking into account the antibiotic sensitivity of the microflora, correction of disturbances of the protein and water-salt metabolism, desintoxication measures, immunotherapy and sanitation of purulent cavities and the tracheobronchial tree.
(12) Improved water supplies and sanitation are seen as a major part of the programme which will be supplemented by chemotherapy.
(13) Ghana, despite making great advances in development, and with one of the highest GDPs in west Africa, still has 80% of its urban population with poor sanitation.
(14) Another table lists selected sociodemographic indicators related to malnutrition in the areas of mortality, maternal and child health and nutrition, food consumption and child care, environmental sanitation and services, potential demand for food and services, and employment.
(15) Patients who had money were seen before her.” Lack of safe water and sanitation at health centres is also a major concern .
(16) A chlorine sanitizer was circulated (5 min, 40 degrees C) and the unit containing sanitizing solution left idle overnight.
(17) Carolien van der Voorden, senior programme officer, Global Sanitation Fund, WSSCC 5.
(18) Finding the funds to invest in durable and improved sanitation remains a major hurdle.
(19) The health problems of Ecuador are similar to those in other developing countries where the standard of living is low, and housing and sanitation are inadequate.
(20) Photograph: James Drew Turner This was the cri de coeur from experts who gathered in the Guardian’s London offices for a roundtable event, in association with the UN’s water supply and sanitation collaborative council ( WSSCC) , to debate how the international community will fund sustainable development over the next 15 years.