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21 wild
1) ((of animals) not tamed: wolves and other wild animals.) savvaļas-2) ((of land) not cultivated.) neapgūts; neapstrādāts3) (uncivilized or lawless; savage: wild tribes.) pirmatnējs; mežonīgs4) (very stormy; violent: a wild night at sea; a wild rage.) trakojošs; vētrains5) (mad, crazy, insane etc: wild with hunger; wild with anxiety.) traks no uztraukuma6) (rash: a wild hope.) spējš; nepamatots7) (not accurate or reliable: a wild guess.) uz labu laimi; akls8) (very angry.) nikns; pārskaities•- wildly- wildness
- wildfire: spread like wildfire
- wildfowl
- wild-goose chase
- wildlife
- in the wild
- the wilds
- the Wild West* * *dabas klēpis, pirmatnējā daba; savvaļas, mežonīgs; tuksnesīgs, mežonīgs; plēsīgs, nikns; nesavaldīgs, straujš; nepārdomāts; kā pagadās, uz labu laimi -
22 a shot in the dark
(a guess based on little or no information: The detective admitted that his decision to check the factory had just been a shot in the dark.) [] uz labu laimi -
23 charades
noun singular (a game in which each syllable of a word, and then the whole word, is acted and the audience has to guess the word.) šarāde -
24 win/lose the toss
(to guess rightly or wrongly which side of the coin will fall uppermost: He won the toss so he started the game.) laimēt/zaudēt, metot monētu
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Guess — (g[e^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Guessed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Guessing}.] [OE. gessen; akin to Dan. gisse, Sw. gissa, Icel. gizha, D. gissen: cf. Dan. giette to guess, Icel. geta to get, to guess. Probably originally, to try to get, and akin to E.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Guess? — Guess?, Inc. Tipo Pública (NYSE: GES) Fundación Los Ángeles, CA (1981) … Wikipedia Español
guess — The informal use of I guess meaning ‘I think it likely, I suppose’ developed in America in the late 18c from the standard use of the phrase meaning ‘it is my opinion or hypothesis (that)’. The Americanness of the informal use has been marked… … Modern English usage
guess´er — guess «gehs», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to form an opinion of without really knowing; conjecture; estimate: »to guess the height of a tree, guess what will happen next. 2. to get right by guessing: »Can you guess the answer to that riddle? 3. to think … Useful english dictionary
guess — guess·able; guess·er; guess·ing·ly; guess; guess·ti·mate; … English syllables
Guess — Guess, v. i. To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; with at, about, etc. [1913 Webster] This is the place, as well as I may guess. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Guess — Guess, n. An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise. [1913 Webster] A poet must confess His art s like physic but a happy… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
guess — [ges] vt., vi. [ME gessen, to judge, estimate, prob. < MDu, akin to Dan gisse, Swed gissa, ON geta: for IE base see GET] 1. to form a judgment or estimate of (something) without actual knowledge or enough facts for certainty; conjecture;… … English World dictionary
guess — vb *conjecture, surmise Analogous words: speculate, *think, reason: imagine, fancy (see THINK): gather, *infer, deduce: estimate, reckon (see CALCULATE) guess n conjecture, surmise (see under … New Dictionary of Synonyms
guess — [n] belief, speculation assumption, ballpark figure*, conclusion, conjecture, deduction, divination, estimate, fancy, feeling, guesstimate*, guesswork, hunch*, hypothesis, induction, inference, judgment, notion, opinion, postulate, postulation,… … New thesaurus
guess — ► VERB 1) estimate or suppose (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct. 2) correctly estimate or conjecture. 3) (I guess) informal, chiefly N. Amer. I suppose. ► NOUN ▪ an estimate or conjecture. DERIVATIVES … English terms dictionary
