All 5 Uses of
speculate
in
The Time Machine
- There was some speculation at the dinner-table about the Time Traveller's absence, and I suggested time travelling, in a half-jocular spirit.
Chpt 2 *speculation = thought or theorizing
- This, I must remind you, was my speculation at the time. Later, I was to appreciate how far it fell short of the reality.
Chpt 4speculation = theory
- I thought in a transitory way of the oddness of wells still existing, and then resumed the thread of my speculations.†
Chpt 4
- But people, unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin, forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body.†
Chpt 5
- Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(speculate as in: don't know, but I'll speculate) to think about, wonder, guess or theorize with much uncertainty