CONJECTURE

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conjecture I. substantiv

1. presupunere, supoziţie, ipoteză, conjectură; interpretare dubioasă.

2. sugestie, propunere.

conjecture II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a presupune, a crede; a lua drept bun;

2. a propune, a sugera.

conjecture II. verb B. intranzitiv

a ghici, a-şi da cu părerea, a face o supoziţie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wish I could conjecture how soon I shall make this rivet quite firm.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Conjectures as to the meaning of it, rapid and wild, hurried into her brain; but she was satisfied with none.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

They undoubtedly showed that the affair was much deeper than was at first conjectured.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In short, I could learn nothing but that she was gone; all the rest, for eight long months, was left to conjecture.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Edmund now believed himself perfectly acquainted with all that Fanny could tell, or could leave to be conjectured of her sentiments, and he was satisfied.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

It happened that a young female Yahoo, standing behind a bank, saw the whole proceeding, and inflamed by desire, as the nag and I conjectured, came running with all speed, and leaped into the water, within five yards of the place where I bathed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He could not any longer delay his departure; but as his journey to London might be followed, even sooner than he now conjectured, by his longer voyage, he entreated me to bestow as much of my society on him as I could spare.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the course of my necessary correspondence with Mr. Briggs about the will, I had inquired if he knew anything of Mr. Rochester's present residence and state of health; but, as St. John had conjectured, he was quite ignorant of all concerning him.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjectured from her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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