predict (verb)

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• predict — ► VERB ▪ state that (a specified event) will happen in the future. DERIVATIVES predictive adjective predictor noun. ORIGIN Latin praedicere make known beforehand, declare …   English terms dictionary

• predict — verb ADVERB ▪ correctly, reliably, successfully ▪ incorrectly, wrongly ▪ accurately, exactly, precisely, with accura …   Collocations dictionary

• predict — pre‧dict [prɪˈdɪkt] verb [transitive] to say what you think will happen: • Wall Street had been predicting a quarterly profit of 5 cents per share. predict that • Economists are predicting that growth will slow. • Unemployment is predicted to… …   Financial and business terms

• predict — verb no one can predict the outcome Syn: forecast, foretell, foresee, prophesy, anticipate, tell in advance, envision, envisage; literary previse; archaic augur, presage •• predict, augur, divine, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, prognosticate,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

• predict — verb a) To state, or make something known in advance, especially using inference or special knowledge. How could I ever predict this could happen? b) To believe or hold to be true in advance; …   Wiktionary

• predict — I verb adumbrate, advise, announce in advance, anticipate, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, divine, envision, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, forespeak, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, give notice, herald, indicate,… …   Law dictionary

• predict — verb Etymology: Latin praedictus, past participle of praedicere, from prae pre + dicere to say more at diction Date: 1609 transitive verb to declare or indicate in advance; especially foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• predict — verb state that (a specified event) will happen in the future. Derivatives predictive adjective predictively adverb predictor noun Origin C17: from L. praedict , praedicere make known beforehand, declare , from prae beforehand + dicere say …   English new terms dictionary

• predict — verb Syn: forecast, foretell, prophesy …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• predict — predictable, adj. predictability, n. predictably, adv. /pri dikt /, v.t. 1. to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization. v.i. 2. to foretell the future; make a prediction. [1540 …   Universalium

• predict — pre•dict [[t]prɪˈdɪkt[/t]] v. t. 1) to declare or tell in advance; foretell 2) to foretell the future; make a prediction • Etymology: 1540–50; < L praedictus, ptp. of praedīcere to foretell =prae pre +dīcere to say pre•dict′a•ble, adj.… …   From formal English to slang