(n.) Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) As any capable contracting person knows, this enters the realms of guesswork and slight changes in assumptions can lead to different outcomes for contracts that may be for only three or four years, let alone 13.
(2) Without this knowledge, clinical judgment regarding overall renal function in human neonates, especially those considered high risk, is reduced to guesswork.
(3) It is quite often left entirely to the inspired guesswork and seasoned experience of the lowest ranking police officers and more often than not to a Head Constable of a police station or substation.
(4) The fact that the models are three-dimensional eliminates guesswork as to the exact position of the pulp, and the rigidity of the plastic cast enhances the recovery of morphological features of the pulp as it existed in the natural tooth.
(5) Reiterating his call for a royal commission on Britain's drugs laws, Clegg says future legislation should be based on "what works, not guesswork".
(6) But Carter's trip could also be valuable at a time when, with few official contacts, determining Pyongyang's motivations and goals is often guesswork and left to unofficial envoys.
(7) The allocation was calculated on nothing more than guesswork.
(8) Predicting what happens next in the five-year saga that has shaken the eurozone to its foundations is sheer guesswork.
(9) The first exhumations were amateur affairs, involving guesswork, rumours and crude holes scooped out by borrowed yellow diggers.
(10) Without committing to the development of next generation climate modelling and climate monitoring, billions of dollars of public investment on long term infrastructure will be based on guesswork rather than on strategic and informed science-driven policy.” The letter says that if the CSIRO does proceed with the cuts, then the country urgently needs to find a new home for the capabilities that will be lost.
(11) Photograph: Global Partners Governance 2014 “Worse than this, that guesswork is then used to create the indicators of success.
(12) Finally, the examiner assessing patients with possible obstructive laryngitis, supraglottic, or subglottic, should first and foremost decide whether an airway is needed and should defer all diagnostic guesswork and laboratory data processing until the airway is secured.
(13) Until the OECD officially predicted a double-dip British recession today, the spurt of hype and guesswork preceding George Osborne's autumn statement was just about doing its work.
(14) But as the treasury secretary made alarmingly clear in his testimony this morning, the dates involved are built on guesswork.
(15) Sterling guesswork as financial sector calculates Brexit effect Read more First, the Bank of England would not cut interest rates after a Brexit devaluation (as it did in 1992 and also after the large devaluation of 2008) because interest rates are already at the lowest level compatible with the stability of British banks.
(16) The knowledge needed for the design of appropriate environmental countermeasures is, however, grossly deficient and this needs to be remedied before any real change to the current "countermeasure implementation by guesswork" approach takes place.
(17) O’Reilly said it was “guesswork” whether it was this or his “history of non-violent civil disobedience” that prompted the ban.
(18) In a row that followed publication of the IFS report, the Treasury argued the research was based on flawed assumptions and guesswork.
(19) Optimal antihypertensive drug therapy of patients with both disorders is therefore based on limited experimental data, practical experience and educated guesswork, and needs to be tailored to each (often multimorbid) individual.
(20) The Brexiteers must have fought the urge to howl: “What the hell do they know?” But it’s not just the guesswork that passes for economic forecasting which makes an Osborne text read like a work of magical realism.
Limited
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Limit
(a.) Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
(2) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(5) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(7) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(8) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
(9) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
(10) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(11) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(12) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(13) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(14) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(15) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
(16) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(17) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
(18) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
(19) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
(20) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.