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"plural"
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{
"text": "His educated guess was correct to within 2%, but then, he's been doing this for 10 years and knows what range of values to expect.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge."
],
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"links": [
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"well-informed",
"well-informed"
],
[
"guess",
"guess"
],
[
"estimate",
"estimate"
]
],
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{
"word": "guesstimate"
},
{
"word": "hypothesis"
},
{
"word": "intelligent guess"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "conjectura"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "有根據的推測"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǒu gēnjù de tuīcè",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "有根据的推测"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kvalifikovaný odhad"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "valistunut arvaus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "supposition éclairée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "supposition bien informée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "hypothèse raisonnée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hypothèse raisonnable"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hypothèse bien fondée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "à vue de nez"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "au pifomètre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "estimation éclairée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jugement approximatif"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "approximation"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spéculation bien informée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hypothèse éclairée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "à dire d’expert"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fundierte Vermutung"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "ניחוש מושכל"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stima ragionata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ipotesi plausibile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "supposizione plausibile"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palpite fundamentado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "suposição fundamentada"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hipótese fundamentada"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hipótese plausível"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obosnóvannoje predpoložénije",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "обосно́ванное предположе́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predpoložénije",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предположе́ние"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "učeno pogađanje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "učena pretpostavka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kvalificerad gissning"
}
]
}
],
"word": "educated guess"
}
{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "His educated guess was correct to within 2%, but then, he's been doing this for 10 years and knows what range of values to expect.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge."
],
"links": [
[
"well-informed",
"well-informed"
],
[
"guess",
"guess"
],
[
"estimate",
"estimate"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "guesstimate"
},
{
"word": "hypothesis"
},
{
"word": "intelligent guess"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "conjectura"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "有根據的推測"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǒu gēnjù de tuīcè",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "有根据的推测"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kvalifikovaný odhad"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "valistunut arvaus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "supposition éclairée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "supposition bien informée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "hypothèse raisonnée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hypothèse raisonnable"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hypothèse bien fondée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "à vue de nez"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "au pifomètre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "estimation éclairée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jugement approximatif"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "approximation"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spéculation bien informée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hypothèse éclairée"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "à dire d’expert"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fundierte Vermutung"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"word": "ניחוש מושכל"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stima ragionata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ipotesi plausibile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "supposizione plausibile"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palpite fundamentado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "suposição fundamentada"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hipótese fundamentada"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hipótese plausível"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obosnóvannoje predpoložénije",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "обосно́ванное предположе́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predpoložénije",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предположе́ние"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "učeno pogađanje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "učena pretpostavka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "guess based on experience or knowledge",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kvalificerad gissning"
}
],
"word": "educated guess"
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