Thought vs. Guess — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Thought and Guess
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Definitions
Thought➦
Thought (or thinking) encompasses a flow of ideas and associations that can lead to logical conclusions. Although thinking is an activity of an existential value for humans, there is still no consensus as to how it is adequately defined or understood.
Guess➦
To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.
Thought➦
Past tense and past participle of think.
Guess➦
To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information.
Thought➦
The process of thinking; cogitation
Sitting deep in thought at the computer.
Guess➦
To form a correct estimate or conjecture of
Guessed the answer.
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Thought➦
A product of thinking or other mental activity
What are your thoughts on this matter?.
Guess➦
To suppose; think
I guess he was wrong.
Thought➦
The faculty of thinking or reasoning
Why not use thought instead of emotion to solve the problem?.
Guess➦
To make an estimate or conjecture
We could only guess at her motives.
Thought➦
The intellectual activity or production of a particular time or group
Ancient Greek thought.
Deconstructionist thought.
Guess➦
To estimate or conjecture correctly.
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Thought➦
Consideration; attention
Didn't give much thought to what she said.
Guess➦
An act or instance of guessing.
Thought➦
Intention; purpose
My thought is to live in a house on a lake.
Guess➦
A conjecture arrived at by guessing.
Thought➦
Expectation or conception
She had no thought that anything was wrong.
Guess➦
To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
Thought➦
(countable) Representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Guess➦
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
Thought➦
(uncountable) The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Guess➦
To suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
Thought➦
(uncountable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
Guess➦
(colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
"I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."
"I guess I'll go to bed."
Thought➦
Anxiety, distress.
Guess➦
(obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
Thought➦
(uncountable) The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
After much thought, I have decided to stay.
Guess➦
A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
If you don't know the answer, take a guess.
Thought➦
A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
Guess➦
To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess.
Thought➦
Simple past tense and past participle of think
Guess➦
To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
We may then guess how far it was from his design.
Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress,To be Taxallan enemies I guess.
Thought➦
The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.
Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative.
Guess➦
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
Thought➦
Meditation; serious consideration.
Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought.
Guess➦
To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.
Thought➦
That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.
Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought.
Why do you keep alone, . . . Using those thoughts which should indeed have diedWith them they think on?
Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject.
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Guess➦
To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; - followed by an objective clause.
Not all together; better far, I guess,That we do make our entrance several ways.
But in known images of life I guessThe labor greater.
Thought➦
Solicitude; anxious care; concern.
Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.
Guess➦
To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; - with at, about, etc.
This is the place, as well as I may guess.
Thought➦
A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.
If the hair were a thought browner.
This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the "elaborative faculty," - the faculty of relations or comparison, - constitutes what is properly denominated thought.
Guess➦
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.
A poet must confessHis art 's like physic - but a happy guess.
Thought➦
The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;
It was not a good idea
The thought never entered my mind
Guess➦
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Thought➦
The process of thinking (especially thinking carefully);
Thinking always made him frown
She paused for thought
Guess➦
An estimate based on little or no information
Thought➦
The organized beliefs of a period or group or individual;
19th century thought
Darwinian thought
Guess➦
Expect, believe, or suppose;
I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel
I thought to find her in a bad state
He didn't think to find her in the kitchen
I guess she is angry at me for standing her up
Thought➦
A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty;
My opinion differs from yours
What are your thoughts on Haiti?
Guess➦
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;
I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again
I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong
Guess➦
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
Guess➦
Guess correctly; solve by guessing;
He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize
