Predict
[prɪ'dɪkt]
Definition
(verb.) make a prediction about; tell in advance; 'Call the outcome of an election'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
(n.) A prediction.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Foretell, prophesy, prognosticate, presage, augur, divine, forebode, VATICINATE.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prophesy, foretell, forecast, prognosticate, forebode, foreshadow,[SeeFORETELL]
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Definition
v.t. to declare or tell beforehand: to prophesy.—adj. Predic′table.—n. Predic′tion act of predicting: that which is predicted or foretold: prophecy.—adj. Predic′tive foretelling: prophetic.—n. Predic′tor.
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Examples
- Does the ambitious young philosopher predict that electricity will supersede steam? Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Whether he will or not, the seer is powerless to predict: on that subject there has been no open vision. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If the air is near saturation and the temperature is falling, it is safe to predict bad weather, because the fall of temperature will probably cause rapid condensation, and hence rain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- How is the Weather Man Able to Predict Tomorrow’s Weather? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What the future has in store for the further development of the electric light no one may dare predict. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Besides accounting for old experimental results it suggests new lines of work and even enables one to predict the outcome of further investigation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What new elements may be found no one may predict. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The doctor may have been wrong when he discovered the child's defects of intellect, and predicted that she would 'grow out of them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As I had predicted, Early was soon found in front of Sheridan in the valley, and Pennsylvania and Maryland were speedily freed from the invaders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Agnes was very cheerful; and laughingly predicted that I should soon become too famous to be talked to, on such subjects. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Besides, there was gratitude towards her, for having made their _tete-a-tete_ so much less painful than her fears had predicted. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- About this time the very troops whose coming I had predicted, had arrived or were coming in. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here he predicted most important advances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But he did not win the distinction predicted for him by many of his friends. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The barometer is not an infallible prophet, but it is of great assistance in predicting the general trend of the weather. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The astronomer predicts an eclipse, and on the minute the spheres swing into line, verifying, beyond all doubt, the correctness of the laws predicated for their movements. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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