Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge.
- intransitive verb To foretell something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prediction.
- To foretell; prophesy; declare before the event happens; prognosticate; also, to declare before the fact is known by direct experience.
- Synonyms Prophesy, Presage, etc. (see
foretell ), foreshow, divine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A prediction.
- transitive verb To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
state , or make somethingknown inadvance , especially usinginference orspecial knowledge . - verb transitive To
believe or hold to be true in advance;forehold ;surmise . - verb intransitive To
foretell ,foresee orprophesy . - noun obsolete A
prediction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb indicate by signs
- verb make a prediction about; tell in advance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What makes this hard to predict is that much of it depends on the nature of the artistic activity in question.
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Suffice it to say that it was very well done, and that there was a piece of the subject matter (not the piece you will be able to predict from the first page) that was particularly difficult at this moment in my life.
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Could it again predict the outcome prior to what Prudhomme hopes will be a decisive third week?
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Prudhomme hits home run with 2011 Tour route
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What makes this hard to predict is that much of it depends on the nature of the artistic activity in question.
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Where he will fail, I predict, is in actually believing his own left wing cant.
Profiles in fear: ‘conservative’ Democrats and THAT WOMAN. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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This, I predict, is exactly what will happen if single-payer is passed.
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Could it again predict the outcome prior to what Prudhomme hopes will be a decisive third week?
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Two times up the Alpe in the 2011 Tour de France?
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The fact that we have not had as much warming as models predict is an indication that damping mechanisms are involved that the models do not account for properly.
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Now they predict crime will rise because of the recesion, does this mean that what the actually predict is in a recession, police will not work as hard and allow crime to rise thus failling the public.
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This post, I predict, is going to get an IFA link after I hit some deadlines later today.
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