Budgeting involves projecting costs for prototypes, and educated guesswork. Direct digital tuning eliminated the guesswork and imprecision inherent in analog tuners. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. More recent estimates use less outdated criteria, but they remain guesswork. Ownership up to this point has been based mostly on guesswork and circumstantial evidence. The townspeople believe his predictions because of his study, practice and shrewd guesswork. We reject Wade's implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. The actual height of Scafell Pike is a matter of definition or guesswork. It was nevertheless poorly understood, and remedies were based on guesswork. Ivan's motive is clear, but Akhmed's motives are a matter of guesswork. Sights were rudimentary or non-existent, and elevation was controlled by wedges and guesswork. Critical analysts have described it thus&colon; "Feng shui has always been based upon mere guesswork". Before then, estimates were frequently the product of guesswork and very low. Operators like Rawnsley were left to do a fair amount of guesswork. Dr. Shaler said blood stain pattern analysis as a science is "essentially guesswork".