Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being guessed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being guessed.
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- adjective Capable of being
guessed .
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Examples
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Sure, this was kind of guessable by looking at their tour schedule and seeing a stop at the Glasshouse in Pomona and at the Henry Fonda in LA, but questions about a Coachella stop had been previously denied.
murder city devils are playing coachella | Seattle Metblogs 2009
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The other thing you should do is make sure you have the proper account-recovery options set: Is your secret question not easily guessable from your Facebook/LinkedIn/whatever profile?
Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro Rob Pegoraro 2011
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Baxter uses the Historian to inject heavy doses of well-conceived world building into a mystery that's ultimately easily-guessable.
REVIEW: We Think Therefore We Are edited by Peter Crowther 2009
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Instead, at issue is the age-old divide between risk (guessable, measurable, insurable) and uncertainty (unpredictable, unfathomable, unbeatable).
Nothing New Under the Son Joseph Sternberg 2011
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In the meantime, give yourself a less guessable password -- a smart move regardless.
Carolyn Hax: Should a partner change for you? Should you ask him to? 2010
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This is true of other sites which store photos similarly, such as Flickr and Smugmug, and is exceedingly unlikely to be guessable by a random stranger.
Typepad security flaw - should I change blogging platform? 2008
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The minimum-length PIN, preventing guessable passwords and the autowipe feature combine to ensure that "cybercriminals cannot easily guess passwords without forcing the device to erase itself," Jaquith writes.
Apple's iOS devices meet many enterprise security needs 2010
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"We used to see this a lot with Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and we still see a lot of authentication schemes that rely on semi-public information or reasonably guessable values," he writes.
AT&T iPad 3G breach teaches smartphone security lessons 2010
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AT&T's lapse was due in part, according to the hackers, because the ICC-IDs were easily guessable.
AT&T iPad 3G breach teaches smartphone security lessons 2010
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Related Terms & Expressions: deviner = to divine; to guess, predict devinable = guessable, foreseeable une devinette = a conundrum, riddle, guessing game poser une devinette à quelqu'un = to pose a riddle to someone deviner la pensée de quelqu'un = to read somebody's thoughts arrête de jouer aux devinettes = stop playing guessing games
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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