Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Guesswork; conjecture; notion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of making a
guess ;estimate orprediction ;foresight - verb Present participle of
guess .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an estimate based on little or no information
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Examples
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After what seemed like the longest gestation period ever known to man and over 24 hours of teasing her Twitter fans with a name guessing game involving the initial M it wasn't fun, just tedious, the twin's names have FINALLY been announced.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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The cost of password guessing is constantly going down, and the value of the data depends on the data.
Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The cost of password guessing is constantly going down, and the value of the data depends on the data.
Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Today is their “Official Soft Opening” which I’m guessing is code for “don’t blame us if everything isn’t perfect”.
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I'm guessing from the trailer that this is going to more-or-less follow the first book (of three) of the cartoon series, with some alterations -- I notice a talking dragon, for example, and while everyone knows I have nothing against talking dragons, I'm wondering what the heck it's doing there.
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I'm guessing from the trailer that this is going to more-or-less follow the first book (of three) of the cartoon series, with some alterations -- I notice a talking dragon, for example, and while everyone knows I have nothing against talking dragons, I'm wondering what the heck it's doing there.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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It bridges that connections that occurred in the comics, but that is just what I am guessing from a comic book perspective.
Possible Synopsis for The First Avenger: Captain America Sounds a Lot Like…Captain America | /Film 2010
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The outcome of her campaign may depend on whether she was right in guessing that her ads would win her more votes in this election than they would cost her.
Michael B. Keegan: What the 2010 Elections Say About America: Stories People for the American Way Is Watching Michael B. Keegan 2010
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There was a deer leg (I am guessing from the road kill buck) laying in the middle of our road.
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There was a deer leg (I am guessing from the road kill buck) laying in the middle of our road.
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