Definizione monolingua

guess

guess (third-person singular simple present guesses, present participle guessing, simple past and past participle guessed)

1. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
   • 1914–1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear:

     ""Are you a member of the union?""

     ""Sure.""

     ""Then youll get your job, I guess. Have you any friends?""

2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

   He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.

3. (mainly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

   That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could look online for a sample song.

guess (plural guesses)

1. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
   • 1907, L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz:

     ""But I shall have eleven guesses,"" answered Ozma. ""Surely I ought to guess one object in eleven correctly; and, if I do, I shall rescue one of the royal family and be safe myself. Then the rest of you may attempt it, and soon we shall free all those who are enslaved.""

Definizione dizionario guess

	indovinare
	to reach an unqualified conclusion

supporre

	congettura
	prediction about the outcome of something

azzeccare

calcolare

congetturare

imbroccare

predire

supposizione

tirare ad indovinare

Altri significati:

To succeed to know, or discover, by way of surmises.

to suppose

To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

surmise (about somebody’s feelings)

(mainly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

(to) speculate

To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.

to solve by a correct conjecture

A prediction made without factual evidence.