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you're allowed three guesses—tienes tres oportunidades de adivinar(lo)
have a guess!—¡a ver si adivinas!
my guess was almost correct—casi acierto con mis cálculos
it was just a wild guess—fue lo primero que se me vino a la cabeza
to make a lucky guess—atinar(le) por / de casualidad
our best guess is that it'll take at least three months—calculamos que llevará por lo menos tres meses
Judgment is the ability to combine hard data, questionable data, and intuitive guesses to arrive at a conclusion that events prove to be correct.
To what extent was it based on estimates, guesses and interpretations, however well-founded?
Without complete designs for these projects, cost estimates are only wild guesses.
My guess is that there used to be flights at that stage directly from New Zealand.
The projections are only guesses, based on assumptions that workers will be with the company their entire careers and will receive annual raises.
They make guesses, set up provisional theories about what things mean, or how they might be expressed, and modify them in the light of experience.
The trouble with this is that many of the available numbers are guesses described as estimates.
Is anybody going to solve the theory and make a guess to what exactly is going on?
However, my best guesses are nothing compared to the insights of someone who actually manages to pull off good service.
Obviously, no one knows what the numbers or weights are - we can only make guesses, and we can argue about the assumptions underlying those guesses.
This is because we have to make guesses, judgments, and assumptions about who other people are and what they want.
But until now estimates of the shark harvest were little more than guesses, because the numbers depended on shark fishers to report their catches.
It allows, even encourages, inventive guesses, strange coincidences, popular theories with or without evidence.
First of all, my guess is we'll hear Premiers bickering over health funding within a year.
Well, there are lots of guesses out there, but it's hard to predict with any degree of accuracy.
And an evaluation of these environmental variables would save us from a wrong guess here.
On paper both teams are equally balanced and to predict the winner is your guess is as good as mine.
In contrast, a government that commits to the consequences of various actions on emissions can only hope that its estimates, or guesses, are on target, and so can its partners.
Estimates on the death toll are a guess as of now, but will probably be in excess of 10,000.
What we do is quite the reverse: that we form theories, or if that is too sophisticated a word, we make guesses, we have hunches and we test these guesses and hunches and theories against reality.
transitive verb
1
(conjecture, estimate)
(name/total/answer)adivinar
guess who she brought with her!—¡adivina a quién se trajo!
guess who!—¿a que no sabes quién soy?
guess what!—¿sabes qué?
you'll never guess what he said—no te puedes imaginar lo que dijo
I can guess what's going through your mind—me imagino qué estarás pensando
I guessed that he weighed about 150 pounds—calculé que pesaría unas 150 libras
we're trying to guess their next move—estamos intentando adivinar qué harán ahora
I guess it to be about ten miles—calculo / me imagino que serán unas diez millas
they'd already guessed who was going to be appointed—ya se imaginaban a quién iban a nombrar
I'm thinking ‘probably not’ and guessing it would be a pointless and frustrating distraction to both you and me.
As you may have guessed by now I believe adoption is a good course of action for many teenage mums.
I still haven't told my family, although I suspect they've already guessed.
We are then asked to guess her bra size from a number of options.
Anyone who has ever watched romantic comedies can probably guess how the rest of this gem of a movie develops.
We tend to assume that because we can guess the name of some very popular sites that the naming scheme works and makes sense.
I wasn't sure who she directed the comment to but I was guessing it was Max.
Although I haven't got the facts to hand, I'm guessing most pundits would also have predicted an up year for the market in 2001.
It was well good, you get lots of freebies, just a shame I'm not a big chocolate person, but I'm guessing TP will be very grateful for them.
She never imagined that anyone would guess that password but it seems they did.
Five of you managed to guess two numbers correctly, but alas nobody got three or more right.
Judging from the dust and general disrepair Xander guessed it hadn't been used in years.
The informant laughed when he told her, so she guessed it must be someone important.
Given the functional illiteracy on either side of it, I'm guessing it was a half-understood attempt to find a rhyme for a line that makes no sense anyway.
I'm guessing it's something to do with his cold, black heart, although maybe that's unfair.
I am sure you can guess the verdict; jaw-dropping effects and cringeworthy dialogue.
It'll be six months since I moved into the new place - which has crept up on me - and I'm guessing it's a year since my housemate moved in.
Judging from the moon's angle overhead, she guessed it was past midnight already.
But I'm guessing the pictures on the screens and most of the reportage in the papers is nothing to do with morals or politics.
Only I know, but I'll give a part to whoever guesses the correct answer.
You can guess whose graves these are, so I won't say it.
Instead of guessing the score, you recited your imaginary measurements!
I have no idea whether you need a visa for Russia, either, so would need to get that sorted out first and I'm guessing the beginning of February might be too soon.
A note especially to ladies and gay men: when a guy guesses your age, always add four years to his estimate, because that's the age he thinks you really are.
I am guessing that none of this makes any sense to those of you who are not from Georgia or the South, so allow me to explain the behavior of my people.
It's time to take the casket out of the church, and you guessed it, it weighs a ton!
It's easy to guess the inevitable response because people are genuinely predictable.
Whoever guesses the correct code will win the necklace, which is 18 carat white gold and set with a 0.3-carat diamond.
I'm guessing the author doesn't know how much she has in common with me.
One of us is wrong, and I'm guessing it might be me.
They are there instead of plying their trade on the streets expecting to meet, you've guessed it, a foreigner.
Instead they think of ways to get your data without randomly guessing the password.
Yup, you guessed it, they wanted more information from me and I've had my telepathy switched off so I didn't know.
I'm guessing the networks are already quietly preparing to open their own web services for this purpose.
I just discovered that it is the perfect size for a bottle of… yes, you guessed it.
The person who correctly guessed the number of balls in Sue's desk won a ticket to the final of the European Championship in Lisbon.
I haven't counted how much I received so far yet, but I'm guessing wallets are light and belts are tightening.
I'm guessing contracts involved dumptrucks full of money for everyone involved to do such a project.
Plus I'm guessing it'll be populated by wannabe hard nuts.
So now, even worms try to guess the passwords we keep on these machines.
2US informal
(suppose)
suponer
I guess so—supongo (que sí)
I guess not—supongo que no
she can't have got the message, I guess—no debe haber recibido el recado, digo yo
So I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album.
I guess it also gave him a chance to judge our skills in different situations.
I guess the secret is making sure that you have fabulously large sunglasses and a means of capturing events.
So I guess that by about 2020 the politicians will be taking half our money off us in taxes.
So I guess it is time to go and rest my head on the pillow, and let unconsciousness drown those thoughts.
History, I guess, will tell if our efforts prove enough or not for our World Cup chances.
Overall, I guess the most interesting part of the film was the attending audience.
I guess it's easy to criticise America and I'm sure the UK is no better in many respects.
It is a good method of getting people to donate in the leadup to election day I guess.
You are free, I guess, to take your pick in relation to these and similar options.
So I guess I owe it to myself not to wash any of the colour out of the telling.
I guess it's time to fix my mortgage rate, which I should have done earlier.
I guess only time and my son's evolving temperament will determine what I should do.
I guess the answer is to get this information out there so people can't ignore it any more.
I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title.
Well I guess calling it by its real name here can't do any harm compared to this.
So I guess this is probably a good time to do an entry on the birthday celebrations.
I guess the most intriguing information I would have to share would be insight to your host.
Its primary purpose, I guess, is to plug her books, but it contains quite a lot of other stuff.
Ah well, I guess many of us are stupid and cynical and don't think things through when we are young.
intransitive verb
1
to guess right—atinar(le)Mexico
to guess wrong—equivocarse
how did you guess?—¿cómo lo has adivinado?
we can only guess at her motives—solo podemos hacer conjeturas sobre cuáles fueron sus motivos