English-Thai Dictionary

conjecture

N การ คาดเดา  guesswork kan-khad-dao

 

conjecture

VI คาดเดา  khad-dao

 

conjecture

VT คาดเดา  guess khad-dao

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONJECTURE

n.[L., See Conjector. ] 1. Literally, a casting or throwing together of possible or probable events; or a casting of the mind to something future, or something past but unknown; a guess, formed on a supposed possibility or probability of a fact, or on slight evidence; preponderance of opinion without proof; surmise. We speak of future or unknown things by conjecture, and of probable or unfounded conjectures.
2. Idea; notion.

 

CONJECTURE

v.t.To guess; to judge by guess, or by the probability or the possibility of a fact, or by very slight evidence; to form an opinion at random. What will be the issue of a war, we may conjecture, but cannot know. He conjectured that some misfortune had happened.

 

CONJECTURED

pp. Guessed; surmised.

 

CONJECTURER

n.One who guesses; a guesser; one who forms or utters an opinion without proof.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CONJECTURE

Con *jec "ture, n. Etym: [L. conjectura, fr. conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture; con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See Jet a shooting forth. ]

 

Defn: An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus ] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell.Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

 

CONJECTURE

Con *jec "ture, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Conjectured; p.pr. & vb. n.Conjecturing. ] Etym: [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. Conject. ]

 

Defn: To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. South.

 

CONJECTURE

CONJECTURE Con *jec "ture, v. i.

 

Defn: To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

 

CONJECTURER

CONJECTURER Con *jec "tur *er, n.

 

Defn: One who conjectures. Hobbes.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

conjecture

con jec ture |kənˈjekCHər kənˈʤɛk (t )ʃər | ▶noun an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information: conjectures about the newcomer were many and varied | the purpose of the opening in the wall is open to conjecture. • an unproven mathematical or scientific theorem: the Goldbach conjecture. • (in textual criticism ) the suggestion or reconstruction of a reading of a text not present in the original source. ▶verb [ with obj. ] form an opinion or supposition about (something ) on the basis of incomplete information: he conjectured the existence of an otherwise unknown feature | many conjectured that she had a second husband in mind. • (in textual criticism ) propose (a reading ). DERIVATIVES con jec tur a ble adjective ORIGIN late Middle English (in the senses ‘to divine ’ and ‘divination ’): from Old French, or from Latin conjectura, from conicere ‘put together in thought, ’ from con- ‘together ’ + jacere ‘throw. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

conjecture

conjecture |kənˈdʒɛktʃə | ▶noun an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information: conjectures about the newcomer were many and varied | [ mass noun ] : a matter for conjecture. • an unproven mathematical or scientific theorem. • [ mass noun ] (in textual criticism ) the suggestion of a reading of a text not present in the original source. ▶verb [ reporting verb ] form an opinion or supposition about (something ) on the basis of incomplete information: [ with clause ] : many conjectured that she had a second husband in mind. • (in textual criticism ) propose (a reading ). DERIVATIVES conjecturable adjective ORIGIN late Middle English (in the senses ‘to divine ’ and ‘divination ’): from Old French, or from Latin conjectura, from conicere ‘put together in thought ’, from con- ‘together ’ + jacere ‘throw ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

conjecture

conjecture noun the information is merely conjecture: speculation, guesswork, surmise, fancy, presumption, assumption, theory, postulation, supposition; inference, (an ) extrapolation; an estimate; informal a guesstimate, a shot in the dark, a ballpark figure. ANTONYMS fact. ▶verb I conjectured that the game was over: guess, speculate, surmise, infer, fancy, imagine, believe, think, suspect, presume, assume, hypothesize, suppose. ANTONYMS know.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

conjecture

conjecture noun we find his conjectures implausible | some of the information is merely conjecture: guess, speculation, surmise, fancy, notion, belief, suspicion, presumption, assumption, theory, hypothesis, postulation, supposition; inference, extrapolation, projection; approximation, estimate, rough calculation, rough idea; guesswork, guessing, surmising, imagining, theorizing; informal guesstimate, shot in the dark; N. Amer. informal ballpark figure. ANTONYMS fact. ▶verb I conjectured that the game was about to end: guess, speculate, surmise, infer, fancy, imagine, believe, think, suspect, presume, assume, hypothesize, take as a hypothesis, theorize, form /formulate a theory, suppose. ANTONYMS know.

 

French Dictionary

conjecture

conjecture n. f. nom féminin Hypothèse, opinion fondée sur des probabilités. : On se perd en conjectures sur les motifs de son acte. Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec le nom conjoncture, situation d ’ensemble (économique, politique, etc. ).

 

conjecturer

conjecturer v. tr. verbe transitif Supposer. : Il ne faut pas conjecturer le résultat de ces rencontres. SYNONYME présumer . aimer

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

conjecture

con jec ture /kəndʒéktʃə r /名詞 U C ｟かたく ｠推測 [憶測 ] (すること ).動詞 他動詞 ｟かたく ｠(不十分な証拠から )…を推測 [憶測 ]する ; 〖～ that節 /wh節 〗…である […か ]と推測する .自動詞 «…について » 推測する «about » .