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conjecture
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin coniect?ra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of c?nici? (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaci? (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?d???k.t???(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?n?d???k.t???/
Noun
conjecture (countable and uncountable, plural conjectures)
- (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
- I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
- (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
- The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
- (mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
- (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
Synonyms
- halseny
- See also Thesaurus:supposition
Related terms
- conject
- conjectural
Translations
Verb
conjecture (third-person singular simple present conjectures, present participle conjecturing, simple past and past participle conjectured)
- (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
- I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
- (transitive) To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.
- February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)
- Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.
- February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)
Translations
Further reading
- conjecture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “conjecture”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- conjecture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coniect?ra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.??k.ty?/
Noun
conjecture f (plural conjectures)
- conjecture
Usage notes
Not to be confused with conjoncture.
Verb
conjecture
- first-person singular present indicative of conjecturer
- third-person singular present indicative of conjecturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of conjecturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of conjecturer
- second-person singular imperative of conjecturer
Further reading
- “conjecture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
conject?re
- vocative masculine singular of conject?rus
Portuguese
Verb
conjecture
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of conjecturar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of conjecturar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of conjecturar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of conjecturar
conjecture From the web:
- what conjecture is being made
- what conjecture means
- what conjecture is being made brainly
- what conjecture is being made 3.1.4
- what conjecture is being made 1.8.4
- what conjecture must be true
- what conjecture is being made apex
- what conjecture or conclusion
deem
English
Etymology
From Middle English d??men (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English d?man (“to decide, decree, deem, determine, judge; to condemn, doom, sentence; to consider, examine, reckon, think; to prove; to compute, estimate; to declare, tell; to glorify, praise”), from Proto-Germanic *d?mijan? (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”). It is also related to doom.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /di?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dim/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Verb
deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
- Synonym: judge
- (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
- Synonym: judge
- (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
- Synonym: judge
- (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
- Synonyms: consider; see also Thesaurus:deem
- (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
deem (plural deems)
- An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Mede, deme, meed
Dutch
Alternative forms
- deim
Noun
deem m (plural demen, diminutive deemke n)
- (Brabant) dumb person
Synonyms
- sukkel
References
- [1]
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German themu, demu, from Proto-Germanic *þammai.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Determiner
deem m or n (unstressed dem)
- dative of deen
- dative of dat
Declension
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?de.??j/
- (Portugal, following a non-nasal sound) IPA(key): [?ðe.??j]
Verb
deem
- inflection of dar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Scots
Etymology
Scots form of English dame.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dim/
Noun
deem (plural deems)
- woman, dame
- maid (especially a kitchen maid)
deem From the web:
- what deems a parent unfit
- what deems a car totaled
- what deemed means
- what deems a car a total loss
- what deems a house unlivable
- what deems a house uninhabitable
- what deems a business essential
- what deems a vehicle totaled
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