Definition of "guess" []

• To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information. (verb-transitive)
• To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information. (verb-transitive)
• To form a correct estimate or conjecture of: guessed the answer. (verb-transitive)
• To suppose; think: I guess he was wrong. (verb-transitive)
• To make an estimate or conjecture: We could only guess at her motives. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Some pseudo code: min = 0 max = 10 found = false count = 1 while found = = false guess = (max + min) / 2 print Is your number $guess? input = getInput () if input = = "yes" print "yay I got it in $count guesses" found = true elsif input = = "lower" max = input count++ else min = input count++ end end print "game over""
• "The Iranian people are not children and there is no need for us to 'finish the job' as you assert which I guess is code for sticking our fat, greedy heads into the situation."
• "This time, it's the credibility of the "Bush-bashers," a diaphanous term which we can only guess translates as "anyone who disagrees with the president's administration" (the majority of America, to beat a dead horse), which is the problem."