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GUESSING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An estimate based on little or no information
Synonyms:
dead reckoning; guess; guessing; guesswork; shot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("guessing" is a kind of...):
approximation; estimate; estimation; idea (an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth)
Derivation:
guess (put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb guess
Context examples:
With Tuesday came the agreeable prospect of seeing him again, and for a longer time than hitherto; of judging of his general manners, and by inference, of the meaning of his manners towards herself; of guessing how soon it might be necessary for her to throw coldness into her air; and of fancying what the observations of all those might be, who were now seeing them together for the first time.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
One might guess twenty things without guessing exactly the right; but I am sure there must be a particular cause for her chusing to come to Highbury instead of going with the Campbells to Ireland.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
