different between enumerate vs guess

English

Etymology

From Latin enumer?tus, from enumer?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nju?.m???e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n(j)u.m???e?t/

Verb

enumerate (third-person singular simple present enumerates, present participle enumerating, simple past and past participle enumerated)

1. To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.
2. To determine the amount of.

Synonyms

• (determine the amount of): number, tally; see also Thesaurus:count or Thesaurus:tick off

Derived terms

• afore-enumerated

Related terms

• enumeration

Translations

Italian

Verb

enumerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of enumerare
2. second-person plural imperative of enumerare
3. feminine plural of enumerato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.nu.me?ra?.te/, [e?n?m???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.nu.me?ra.te/, [?num?????t??]

Verb

?numer?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?numer?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?s, IPA^(key): /??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English gessen, probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitis?n? (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getan? (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Danish gisse (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitisk?n?). Compare also Russian ??????? (gadát?, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.

Verb

guess (third-person singular simple present guesses, present participle guessing, simple past and past participle guessed)

1. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

3. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
   • 1714, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace

     But in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.
4. (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".

5. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

Synonyms

• hypothesize
• take a stab
• speculate
• assume

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gesse. Cognate with Dutch gis (“a guess”).

Noun

guess (plural guesses)

1. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

   Synonyms: estimate, hypothesis, prediction

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• guess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• guess in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Guses