Guess vs. Guest

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  • Guess (verb)

    To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.

  • Guess (verb)

    To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

    “He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.”

  • Guess (verb)

    to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

    “That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.”

  • Guess (verb)

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

    “”I guess you were right.” “What did he say?” “He guesses you were right.””

    “”I guess I’ll go to bed.””

  • Guess (verb)

    To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

  • Guess (noun)

    A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

    “If you don’t know the answer, take a guess.”

    “estimate|hypothesis|prediction”

  • Guest (noun)

    A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.

    “The guests were let in by the butler.”

  • Guest (noun)

    A patron or customer in a hotel etc.

    “Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o’clock on their day of departure.”

  • Guest (noun)

    An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

    “The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.”

  • Guest (noun)

    A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.

  • Guest (noun)

    Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.

  • Guest (noun)

    An inquiline.

  • Guest (verb)

    to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast

  • Guest (verb)

    as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band)

  • Guest (verb)

    To receive or entertain hospitably.

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