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(n)
An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.
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(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
(v)
(intransitive) To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
(transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
(adj)
Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
(business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
Tired, weary.
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
(ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
The act of making a supposition.
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
(transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
(adv)
In all likelihood.
Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely.
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
To intend.
(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
The process of making an estimate.
Thought; verbal noun of think.
(transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
(uncountable, countable) The act, process or result of approximating, as:
(copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
(countable) The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
(chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
(transitive) To understand (something) as meaning, to take to mean.
(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
Seemingly; in appearance.
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
The act of seeing or looking at something.
(transitive) To pronounce.
To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
Owed or owing.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
To try.
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
To collect normally separate things.
(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
Of or pertaining to a god.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
(informal, piles of) A large amount of.
Disliked; odious; reviled.
(transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately in a playful way.
(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
An instrument or condition to achieve a result.
A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
(uncountable, slang) Any of various recreational substances:
(Jamaica) Understood; comprehended.
An unincorporated community in Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.
(copulative, rather formal, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
(N)
the second album by indie rock band The Slip.
The Senses, or Sense, were a Dacian tribe in the southern region of Dacia.
(colloquial) Synonym of have got to, have to [Expressing obligation; used with have.]
(transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
(informal) An estimate that is hardly any better than a guess, often because it is based on insufficient or unreliable data.
(ambitransitive) To know intuitively or by immediate perception.
(intransitive, transitive) To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
An utterance of the word dunno.
Full of questioning and consideration.
Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
An assumption.
Perhaps, possibly.
(conjunctive) Despite that; however.
To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
(rare) Filled with or inspiring hope.