predict
IPA: prɪdˈɪkt
noun
- (obsolete) A prediction.
verb
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
- (intransitive) To make predictions.
- (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
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Examples of "predict" in Sentences
- Their actions are predictive.
- The promise is not the prediction.
- The plot is boring and predictable.
- The placement of stress is predictable.
- Forecasters predict the weather every day.
- It predicts the overthrow of the establishment.
- The newspaper predicted that his election forecast was pessimistic.
- The two types of expectancies noted are predictive and prescriptive.
- This, I predict, is exactly what will happen if single-payer is passed.
- Political analysts predicted what to expect in the next presidential election.
- Where he will fail, I predict, is in actually believing his own left wing cant.
- This post, I predict, is going to get an IFA link after I hit some deadlines later today.
- Could it again predict the outcome prior to what Prudhomme hopes will be a decisive third week?
- But, when asked who they expect to win Ohio, the same respondents predicted Obama would win their state.
- What makes this hard to predict is that much of it depends on the nature of the artistic activity in question.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.