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Xem thêm: conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis, guesswork, guessing, shot, dead reckoning, think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, venture, pretend, hazard, estimate, gauge, approximate, judge, infer
guess noun
ADJ. fair, good, reasonable, safe April is the best guess for first deliveries. | calculated, educated, informed, inspired, intelligent As a vet, he could make an educated guess as to what was wrong with his stomach. | rough, wild At a rough guess, I'd say we're about twenty miles from home. | lucky ‘How did you know?’‘It was just a lucky guess.’
VERB + GUESS have, hazard, make, take If you don't know the answer, have a guess. If I might hazard a guess … | give sb ‘Where's Tom?’ ‘I'll give you three guesses!’ (= the answer is fairly obvious and you should guess it easily)
PREP. at a ~ At a guess, I'd say there's a problem with the fuel pump. | ~ about/as to/at He made a wild guess as to how much the piano might cost.
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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
I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again
I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize