predict

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/pɹɪˈdɪkt/

verb 4noun 1

Collocations

(verb.)

ADV

accurately, correctly, reliably, successfully, with accuracy/certainty

Scientists cannot accurately predict how the weather will change next month.

exactly, precisely | confidently | wrongly

VERB + PREDICT

be able/unable to, can/could | try to

dare (to)

No one would have dared to predict that the small startup would become so successful.

fail to | be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to | be easy to, be possible to

use sth to

Scientists use historical data to predict which areas will experience flooding next year.

allow sb to, enable sb to

Weather forecasts enable meteorologists to predict storms several days in advance.

PREP

from

Based on the dark clouds, we can predict from the weather patterns that rain will come soon.

PHRASES

be widely predicted

The economic downturn was widely predicted by financial experts months before it happened.

Definitions

verb

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.

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.

Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.

To imply.

It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.

For both men and women, greater symmetry predicted a larger number of past sex partners.

To make predictions.

The devil can both predict and make predictors.

To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.

They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.

noun

A prediction.

Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — indicate, as with a sign or an omen

verb — make a prediction about

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.

Wiktionary

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.

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Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Tatoeba · #2289

We cannot really predict anything.

Tatoeba · #22662

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, predict is marked as obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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