predict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: predicts
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form: prædict
Etymology: Early 17th century, from Latin praedīcō (“to mention beforehand”) (perfect passive participle praedictus), from prae- (“before”) + dīcō (“to say”). Equivalent to Germanic forespeak, foretell, and foresay.
Senses: examples: text: After he had renounced his fathers bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of Cesar, was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, Aut Cesar, aut nihil. which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the euent the same predicted.
ref: 1590, E. Daunce, A Briefe Discourse on the Spanish State, section 40:
text: Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.
ref: 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “Mad-Eye Moody”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 171:
text: The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
ref: 2012, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
glosses: To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
examples: text: It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.
ref: 1886, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 177. 338:
text: For both men and women, greater symmetry predicted a larger number of past sex partners.
ref: 1996 June 3, Geoffrey Cowley, “The biology of beauty”, in Newsweek:
qualifier: laws
glosses: To imply.
raw_tags: of theories
examples: text: The devil can both predict and make predictors.
ref: 1652, J. Gaule, Πυς-μαντια the mag-astro-mancer, 196
glosses: To make predictions.
examples: text: They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.
ref: 1943, L. Cheshire, Bomber Pilot, iii. 57:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
Synonyms: word: foretell
word: forespell
word: forespeak
word: halsen
word: anticipate
word: augur
word: call
word: divine
word: forecast
word: foredeem
word: forehold
word: foresee
word: foreshadow
word: predict
word: presage
word: prognosticate
word: prophesy
Hyponyms: word: scry
Related terms: word: predictability
word: predictable
word: predictably
word: prediction
word: predictive
word: predictively
word: predictiveness
word: predictor
word: bode
word: portend
word: intuit
word: divination
word: oracle
word: precognition
word: precognitive