At a guess

Definition

guess / ges / v ၁။ (က) ~ (at sth) မွန္းဆသည္။ You don't know. You're just guessing! ❍ guess right / wrong ❍ We can only guess at the murderer's real motives. ❍ "Can you guess her age / guess how old she is?" "I'd guess that she's about thirty. " (ခ) မွန္းသည္။ မွန္းေျဖသည္။ She guessed the answer straight away. ❍ The next King of France after Louis XIV was __ you've guessed it __ Louis XV. ❍ I knew by her smile that she had guessed what I was thinking. ❍ You'll never guess how they got in! ❍ See also SECOND-GUESS ၂။ ( infml esp US ) (no passive) ထင္သည္။ I guess you're feeling tired after your journey. ❍ 'Will you be there?' 'I guess so. ' ၃။ ဆိုစမ္း။ မွန္း။ ၾကည့္စမ္း။ Guess who I've just seen __ David Bowie! ❍ Guess what! I've just won £5000! n ~ (at sth); ~ (that …) မွန္းဆခ်က္။ ယူဆခ်က္။ ရမ္းဆခ်က္။ မွန္းခ်က္။ have/ make a guess (at sth) ❍ If I might hazard a guess, I'd say she was about thirty. ❍ My guess is that it will rain soon. ❍ Your guess is as good as mine (ie I do not know). ❍ "What's for supper?" "I'll give you three guesses (ie The answer is fairly obvious and you should guess it easily)!" See also EDUCATED GUESS ❏ anybody's guess [ IDM ] မေသခ်ာ မေရရာေသာ ကိစၥ။ တပ္အပ္ မေျပာႏိုင္ေသာအရာ။ What will happen next is anybody's guess. ❏ at a guess [ IDM ] စိတ္မွန္းအရ။ 'How old is she?' 'At a guess, about thirty. ' ❏ keep sb guessing [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေတြးရခက္ေအာင္ မေရမရာ လုပ္ထားသည္။ ဇေဝဇဝါ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။

Examples

1. A competition to guess the weight of the pig
2. [guess at] : It’s difficult even to guess at the figures.
3. [guess something as something] : He guessed her age as 14 or 15.
4. [guess what/who/how etc] : Would anyone like to guess what this object is?
5. [guess (that)] : She guessed that it was about midday from the position of the sun.
6. [guess as to something] : Scientists are really still guessing as to the true cause of ice ages.
7. [guess correctly/right] : Whoever guesses correctly will win two tickets to the show.
8. He had already guessed the answer.
9. Surely she would guess the truth.
10. [guess about] : He wondered whether she knew or guessed about Amy.
11. [guess (that)] : Tim guessed she was awake.
12. I expect you’ve guessed by now that I lost the fight.
13. [guess something from something] : She guessed from the noise that her brothers were home.
14. [not be hard to guess something] : From his expression
15. it wasn’t hard to guess what had happened.