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Noun guessing has 1 sense
- guess, guesswork, guessing, shot, dead reckoning - an estimate based on little or no information
--1 is a kind of estimate, estimation, approximation, idea
Verb guess has 4 senses
- think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess - expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
--1 is one way to expect, anticipate
Sample sentence:
They guess that there was a traffic accident
- guess, venture, pretend, hazard - put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
--2 is one way to speculate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge - judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
--3 is one way to calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- guess, infer - guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"
--4 is one way to solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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