english
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verb
forecast:
He can predict the weather.
Simple Definitions
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predict
to say that something will happen, before it happens:
• In the future, it may be possible to predict earthquakes. • Scientists are trying to predict what the Amazon will look like in 20 years' time.
forecast
to say what is likely to happen in the future, especially in relation to the weather or the economic or political situation:
• They’re forecasting a hard winter. • Economists forecast that there would be a recession.
project
to say what the amount, size, cost etc of something is likely to be in the future, using the information you have now:
• The world’s population is projected to rise by 45%.
can say
especially spoken be able to know what will happen in the future:
• No one can say what the next fifty years will bring. • I can’t say exactly how much it will cost.
foretell
to say correctly what will happen in the future, using special religious or magical powers:
• The woman claimed that she had the gift of foretelling the future. • It all happened as the prophet had foretold.
prophesy
to say that something will happen because you feel that it will, or by using special religious or magical powers:
• He’s one of those people who are always prophesying disaster. • The coming of a great Messiah is prophesied in the Bible. • He prophesied that the world would end in 2012. • Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself.
foresee
to know that something is going to happen before it happens:
• They should have foreseen these problems. • No one foresaw the outcome of the war.
have a premonition
to have a strange feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, usually just before it happens:
• Suddenly I had a strange premonition of danger ahead.
Longman-Thesaurus
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verb ADV. accurately, correctly, reliably, successfully, with accuracy/certainty It is not possible to predict with any certainty what effect this will have. | exactly, precisely | confidently | wrongly VERB + PREDICT be able/unable to, can/could | try to | dare (to) Few would have dared to predict such a landslide victory. | fail to | be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to | be easy to, be possible to | use sth to a computer model used to predict future weather patterns | allow sb to, enable sb to Newton's theories allow us to predict the flight of a cricket ball. PREP. from We can predict from this information what is likely to happen next. PHRASES be widely predicted This result had been widely predicted by the opinion polls.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary