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guess
音節guess発音記号・読み方gés変化～･es{～iz}; ～ed{～t}; ～･ing複～･es{～iz}推測する▷他動詞1自動詞
思う▷他動詞2
推測▷名詞
動詞他動詞
1…を推測する，推量する；…を言い当てるCan you guess the height of this tower?
この塔の高さの見当がつきますか
I'm surprised that he guessed my age correctly.
驚いたことに彼は私の年を正確に言い当てた
guess a riddle
なぞなぞを解く
You've guessed it.
その通りだ
I guessed he was a doctor by the way he spoke.
彼の話し方から彼が医者ではないかと思った
Can you guess how much it cost?
それがいくらしたか見当がつきますか
I guess him to be around thirty.
彼はだいたい30歳ぐらいだろう
2《guess＋that節》*1…だと思う，考えるI guess she's not coming.
彼女は来ないと思う
I guess he'll support us.
彼は私たちに賛成してくれると思う（He'll support us, I guess.のように，I guessを分離させて副詞的に用いることもある）
“Is she married?"“I guess so ."
「彼女は結婚しているだろうか」「しているでしょうね［してないと思いますよ］」
（前言を受けてthat節の代わりにso, notで置き換えることがある）
自動詞〈…を〉推測する，推量する〈at〉She guessed at the age of the child.
彼女はその子どもの年齢を推測した
成句Guess what!
*2ねえ，何だと思う（話を切り出す際に用いる）
Guess what! Our team won the championship.
ねえ知ってる?ぼくたちのチームが優勝したんだよ
成句keep |a person| guessing
（人）をはらはらさせる，…の気をもませておく
George's reckless nature always keeps me guessing.
ジョージの向こう見ずな性格はいつも私をはらはらさせる
名詞推測，当て推量make a guess at the possible outcome
結果を推測する
My guess is that he planned it all.
私の推測では彼が張本人だ
成句anybody's guess
*3だれにもわからないこと，推測でしか言えないこと
Whether or not it will rain is anybody's guess.
雨が降るかどうかはだれにもわからないことだ
成句at a guess |⇔ |by guess
推測で，当て推量で
成句Your guess is as good as mine.
*4（あなたと同じように）私にもよくわかりません（通例相手の質問に答えて言う）
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guess
【動詞】
〜だと思う, 解きあてる, 推測する, 推量する, 想像する用例
I don't really know. I'm just guessing.
印欧語根
ghend-
つかむこと、握ること、取ることを表す（getなど）。ghed-とも表記。
guess
発音
enPR: gĕs, IPA(key): /ɡɛs/
韻: -ɛs
語源 1
From Middle English gessen, probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Danish gisse (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.
動詞
guess (三人称単数 現在形 guesses, 現在分詞 guessing, 過去形および過去分詞形 guessed)
To reach a partly (または totally) unqualified conclusion.
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
(chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:Not all together; better far, I guess, / That we do make our entrance several ways.
1714, Alexander Pope, Imitations of HoraceBut in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.
1914–1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear:"Are you a member of the union?"
"Sure."
"Then you'll get your job, I guess. Have you any friends?"
(colloquial) 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."
(obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.
同意語
hypothesize
take a stab
speculate
assume
派生語
beguess
foreguess
guessable
guesser
guessing game
guesstimate
guess what
guesswork
keep someone guessing
no prize for guessing
out-guess
second-guess
you'll never guess
語源 2
From Middle English gesse. Cognate with Dutch gis (“a guess”).
名詞
guess (複数形 guesses)
A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.If you don't know the answer, take a guess.
1907, L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz:"But I shall have eleven guesses," answered Ozma. "Surely I ought to guess one object in eleven correctly; and, if I do, I shall rescue one of the royal family and be safe myself. Then the rest of you may attempt it, and soon we shall free all those who are enslaved."
Synonyms: estimate, hypothesis, prediction
派生語
another-guess
anyone's guess
by guess or by gosh
educated guess
guesstimate
guesswork
otherguess
take a guess
your guess is as good as mine
