Forecast
['fɔːkɑːst] or ['fɔrkæst]
Definition
(v. t.) To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
(v. t.) To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.
(v. i.) To contrive or plan beforehand.
(n.) Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
(n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Foresee, anticipate, look forward to, provide against.[2]. Contrive, plan, project, devise, scheme.
n. [1]. Foresight, prevision, forethought, anticipation, provident regard to the future.[2]. Contrivance, scheming, planning.
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Definition
v.t. to contrive or reckon beforehand: to foresee: to predict.—v.i. to form schemes beforehand.—ns. Fore′cast a previous contrivance: foresight: a prediction; Forecast′er.
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Examples
- A careful study of these reports enables one to forecast to some extent the probable weather conditions of the day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And the problem of a forecast is complicated by the possibilities of interludes and backwaters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The reports made out at Washington are telegraphed on request to cities in this country, and are frequently published in the daily papers, along with the forecast of the local office. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Not a mood of his but what found a ready sympathiser in Margaret; not a wish of his that she did not strive to forecast, and to fulfil. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In the past it has been an armory of platitudes or a forecast of punishments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They forecast possible results, things to do, not facts (things already done). John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We cannot entertain the conception of a world in which knowledge of its past would not be helpful in forecasting and giving meaning to its future. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The measurement of humidity is of far wider importance than the mere forecasting of local weather conditions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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