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giss

giss is the pronunciation spelling of guess.

Meaning of guess

Verb

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

  1. To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
    • We can only guess at what was going through her mind.
  2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
    • He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
  3. To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
    • That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
  4. (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."
  5. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
    • Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Noun (1) capitalized: GISS

GISS

  1. The general look of a bird.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: GISS

GISS

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
    • A NASA spokesperson said in a statement “employees would be placed on temporary remote work agreements while NASA seeks and evaluates options for a new space for the GISS team.”2025 April 24, Andrew Freedman, “Trump administration cancels top NASA climate lab’s lease at Columbia University”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2025
    • The work will, for now, continue in a different, disparate form. “It’s doable but it is disruptive,” said Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at GISS.2025 May 21, Oliver Milman, “Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2025

Noun (2) capitalized: GISs

GISs

  1. (plural) plural of GIS

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Giss

Giss

  1. Alternative letter-case form of GISS.
    • “Ours is not to reason why,” said Gavin Schmidt, the current Giss director who noted the lab was only recently renovated at a cost of several million dollars.2025 May 21, Oliver Milman, “Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2025

Forms of giss

alternative formGiss

Origin of giss

Variant of jizz as though originating from initialism of general impression size and shape (a popular folk etymology).

Questions about giss

What does giss mean?
Giss means the general look of a bird.
What is giss the pronunciation spelling of?
Giss is the pronunciation spelling of guess.
What part of speech is giss?
Giss can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near giss in the dictionary

  1. Gisondo
  2. Gisondos
  3. Gisors
  4. Gispert
  5. Gisperts
  6. giss
  7. gissa
  8. gissard
  9. gissards
  10. Gissendanner
  11. Gissendanners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: giss (page history and authors); GISS (page history and authors); GISs (page history and authors); Giss (page history and authors); guess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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