(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.
Suppose
Definition:
(v. t.) To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?
(v. t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
(v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
(v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.
(v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.
(n.) Supposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(2) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(3) In this paper we report sixteen new cases from Europe and North America, suggesting that Kabuki make-up syndrome may be more common outside of Japan than supposed.
(4) But I suppose really we’ve just got to look to next Sunday.
(5) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(6) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.
(7) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(8) An angle of 40 degrees or more was supposed to be a pathological kyphosis.
(9) We support the view that catalysis by metalloenzymes may be a reflection of the chemistry of the metal ion itself as a Lewis acid, and that perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on supposed special characteristics (such as strains, "entasis") of the enzyme-metal ion association.
(10) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
(11) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(12) Functional reorganization of interconnections between the limbic and thalamo-cortical brain structures is supposed to underly phenomena observed.
(13) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
(14) It is supposed that the stimulating effect of lactate with NAD+ on the mitochondria respiration is not so much a result of the membrane-damaged action as a result of oxidation of lactate dehydrogenase reaction products: phosphorylative oxidation of pyruvate and nonconjugated oxidation of NADH.
(15) The Financial Services Authority is meant to be the City's watchdog but "devastating" internal documents reveal it has secretly co-ordinated high-level lobbying strategies with the industry it is supposed to police.
(16) The relaxation achieved by rhythmic photoacoustic effects with the help of the device pre-supposes the regulation of the patient's respiration.
(17) It is, I suppose, a form of "participant-observation," but the participation involves developing an overall strategic approach to the community's perceived problems.
(18) It is supposed that only a small degree of training prevents the decrease of heart enlargement, heart hypertrophy and higher performance ability.
(19) After they were shuttered, they were supposed to be replaced by community outreach programs.
(20) The Great Garuda development that was supposed to take flight from that dike could be grounded even longer.