Predict

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Predict \Pre*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Predicted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Predicting}.] [L. praedictus, p. p. of praedicere to
     predict; prae before + dicere to say, tell. See {Diction},
     and cf. {Preach}.]
     To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to
     presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of


     a comet.
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     Syn: To foretell; prophesy; prognosticate; presage; forebode;
          foreshow; bode.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Predict \Pre*dict"\, n.
     A prediction. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  predict
       v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
            of an election" [syn: {foretell}, {prognosticate}, {call},
             {forebode}, {anticipate}, {promise}]
       2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode},
           {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage},
           {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure},
           {forecast}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "predict":
     adumbrate, anticipate, approach, augur, auspicate, await,
     be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bet,
     call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, conclude,
     conjecture, contemplate, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water,
     draw near, draw on, envisage, envision, expect, forebode, forecast,
     foreglimpse, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretaste, foretell,
     foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, gamble, gather, guess,
     hariolate, have a hunch, have an intimation, hazard a conjecture,
     hint, hope, infer, intimate, judge, lie ahead, look ahead,
     look beyond, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction,
     make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, near, omen, plan,
     plot, portend, prefigure, presage, presume, prognosticate, project,
     prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, risk,
     see ahead, see beforehand, shadow, shadow forth, soothsay,
     speculate, suggest, suppose, surmise, take a chance, tell fortunes,
     tell the future, think, threaten, vaticinate