English > guess: 6 senses > verb 1, cognition| Meaning | Expect, believe, or suppose. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Model | They guess that there was a traffic accident |
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| Example | "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" |
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| Synonyms | think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon |
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| Narrower | suspect | hold in suspicion |
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| Broader | expect, anticipate | regard something as probable or likely |
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| Spanish | creer, imaginar, opinar, pensar, suponer |
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| Catalan | creure, imaginar, opinar, pensar, suposar |
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| Nouns | guess | an estimate based on little or no information |
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| guess | a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence |
| guesser | a person who guesses |
English > guess: 6 senses > verb 2, communication| Meaning | Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Example | "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again" |
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| Synonyms | venture, pretend, hazard |
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| Narrower | predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise | make a prediction about |
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| suspect, surmise | imagine to be the case or true or probable |
| Broader | speculate | talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion |
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| Spanish | adivinar, aparentar, aventurar, conjeturar, especular, fingir |
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| Catalan | aparentar, aventurar, conjecturar, endevinar, fingir |
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| Nouns | guess, guessing | an estimate based on little or no information |
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| guess | a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence |
| guesser | a person who guesses |
English > guess: 6 senses > verb 3, cognition| Meaning | judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Synonyms | estimate, gauge, approximate, judge |
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| Entailed by | punish, penalize, penalise | impose a penalty on |
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| Narrower | assess | Estimate the value of (property) for taxation |
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| give | Estimate the duration or outcome / outcome of something |
| guesstimate | Estimate based on a calculation |
| lowball, underestimate | make a deliberately low estimate |
| make | calculate as being |
| misgauge | gauge something incorrectly or improperly |
| place, put, set | Estimate |
| quantize, quantise | Approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values |
| reckon, count | take account of |
| truncate | Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one |
| Broader | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure | make a mathematical calculation or computation |
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| Spanish | calcular, echar, estimar, tasar |
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| Catalan | apreciar, calcular, taxar |
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| Nouns | guess | a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence |
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| guesser | a person who guesses |
