guessing

/หˆษกษ›sษชล‹/

IPA: /G EH1 S IH0 NG/

noun
  1. 1

    The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.

verb
  1. 1

    To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.

  2. 2

    To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

    โ€œHe who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.โ€

  3. 3

    To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

    โ€œThat album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.โ€

  4. 4

    To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".

    โ€œ"I guess I'll go to bed."โ€

  5. 5

    To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guessing