Assertion: guess | /r/ObjectUse | used tentative conjecture
Facets:
value: loosely
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As nouns the difference between hypothesis and guess is that hypothesis is (sciences) used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation as a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation compare to theory, and quotation given there while guess is a prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.