Definition

1. Verb:
   • To estimate / to gauge: To make an approximate judgment or calculation of a quantity, size, value, or distance.
   • To guess / to surmise: To form an opinion or conjecture about something, such as another person's thoughts or intentions, based on limited information.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy ức đạc khoảng cách từ bờ bên này sang bờ bên kia. (He estimated the distance from this bank to the other.)
  • Thật khó để ức đạc ý định thực sự của cô ấy. (It is difficult to guess her true intentions.)
  • Chúng tôi chỉ có thể ức đạc số người sẽ tham dự. (We can only estimate the number of people who will attend.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is formal and literary, often used in written contexts or formal speech rather than casual conversation.
• It implies a process of reasoning or deduction to arrive at an approximate conclusion, not a random guess.

Variants and Related Words

• Ước lượng (v): to estimate, to assess. This is a more common and general synonym.
  • Hãy ước lượng chi phí cho dự án. (Please estimate the cost for the project.)
• Phỏng đoán (v): to conjecture, to speculate.
  • Đó chỉ là phỏng đoán của tôi. (That is merely my conjecture.)

Synonyms

• Estimate: To roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of something.
• Gauge: To estimate or determine the magnitude, amount, or volume of something.
• Surmise: To suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it.

Related Idioms

• : This is a more colloquial phrase meaning "to estimate roughly" or "approximately."
  • Tôi ước chừng căn phòng rộng 30 mét vuông. (I estimate the room is approximately 30 square meters.)