0 present participle of guess --
1 to give an answer to a particular question when you do not have all the facts and so cannot be certain if you are correct: --
[ + (that) ] I guess (that) things are pretty hard for you now.
"You have a new job, don't you?" "Yes, how did you guess?"
[ + question word ] I bet you can't guess how old he is.
[ + (that) ] I guessed (that) she was your sister.
[ + question word ] Guess when this was built.
There also seems to be some connection between invited guessing and the nature of the calls.
In such cases, the leadership or experts end up guessing at consensus, and it can appear 80 imposed.
Effects of prior guessing on intentional and incidental paired-associate learning.
Patterns and perils of guessing in second language reading.
This the experiment does not tell us; it leaves to our sagacity the burden of guessing.
In short, guessing from context has serious limitations.
However, guessing is not so simple for large programs where higher-order functions (such as map) are called repeatedly with different higher-order arguments each time.
Some examples are guessing "man" for "human", or "fork" instead of "branch".
