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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prediction
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accurate
▪ Another collective title, the Angry Young Men, was to prove in the long term more accurate as prediction than description.
▪ Tarot is believed to be one of the most accurate forms of prediction.
▪ Check it after the lesson to see how accurate your predictions were.
▪ Such a model facilitates accurate predictions of the average change in charge radii for nuclei.
dire
▪ The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.
▪ He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions.
▪ When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.
▪ He derived, so far as I could tell, not the slightest satisfaction from seeing his most dire predictions fulfilled.
early
▪ But it's a bit early to make predictions.
▪ Pessimistic early predictions seem to be confirmed by more recent data.
▪ On the television front, satellite had not swept the country to the extent indicated by early predictions.
gloomy
▪ Horror stories, complaints and gloomy predictions are plentiful.
theoretical
▪ These results confirmed the theoretical predictions and aroused great interest in FELs.
▪ But if the fundamental variable is altered, so too are the theoretical predictions.
■ VERB
confirm
▪ Later work, including a recent ESRC- supported investigation by Sugden and Starmer, has tended to confirm these predictions.
▪ And the trends of the past few decades seem to confirm that prediction.
▪ These results confirmed the theoretical predictions and aroused great interest in FELs.
▪ Studies carried out in Hull, did nothing to confirm this prediction.
▪ That at least confirms their predictions of how the world is.
lead
▪ A high tide had led to predictions of one of the largest bores of the year.
▪ This approach, although still somewhat restrictive has led to reasonable predictions of relaxation and retardation spectra.
▪ This has led to predictions that a large number of new grammar schools may be created.
make
▪ In consequence, one might make two predictions.
▪ If a Republican were in the White House, the Democrats would be making similar charges and predictions.
▪ Euravia's history is altogether too brief for any outside to make positive predictions about its future.
▪ Local forecasters are then expected to make their predictions from them.
▪ Scholars compare to provide context, make classifications, test hypotheses, and make predictions.
▪ It is also extremely difficult to make predictions about such babies in the first few weeks of life.
▪ This property of amplification makes it impossible to make long-term predictions about evolution, as one can in astronomy.
▪ Meteorologists use the data to make flood predictions, which are expected to be released later this month.
provide
▪ This theory builds upon transactions cost theory but, its proponents would argue, provides clearer predictions.
▪ In this case relative factor rewards also provide a valid prediction of the intersectoral pattern of trade.
▪ In one sense it is a simplification, but also it is a clarification which is intended to provide understanding and prediction.
▪ Also, the approach has provided few concrete predictions or hypotheses that are subject to rigorous empirical measurement and testing.
▪ More important, it may provide useful predictions.
▪ The fact that relative factor endowments provide a valid prediction of the intersectoral pattern of trade was established in this chapter.
test
▪ A natural extension of the two approaches is to combine them and test both predictions at the same time.
▪ To test these comparative static predictions, we carry out a similar exercise on the actual data.
▪ Only since 1960 have we possessed the technology to test the prediction locally.
▪ The models will then be tested by comparing their predictions with the behaviour of people making idealised decisions in the laboratory.
▪ Sachs tested this prediction by presenting subjects with passages containing a target sentence in various positions.
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dire warning/prediction/forecast
▪ He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions.
▪ Take the current fascination with dire forecasts, for example.
▪ That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast.
▪ The dire warnings of world shortages have not come to pass.
▪ The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.
▪ The most dire forecasts say rising mercury on Earth could bring about both devastating floods and droughts.
▪ When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Despite their confident predictions, sales of the new car have not been very good.
▪ It's too early to make any predictions about the election results.
▪ One prediction is that 50% of households will have two microwaves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A natural extension of the two approaches is to combine them and test both predictions at the same time.
▪ But Donald Rumsfeld's appointment as defence secretary makes those predictions look naive.
▪ Empirical support for the prediction of future violence is very small.
▪ Planning assumptions are predictions about the probable environments in which plans are expected to operate.
▪ Pundits' predictions of repossessions topping 80,000 during 1991 hit the headlines.
▪ This principle, then, makes certain general predictions about acquisition.
▪ What were the sources of these predictions?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prediction

Prediction \Pre*dic"tion\, n. [L. praedictio: cf. F. pr['e]diction.] The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

The predictions of cold and long winters.
--Bacon.

Syn: Prophecy; prognostication; foreboding; augury; divination; soothsaying; vaticination.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prediction

1560s, from Middle French prédiction and directly from Medieval Latin predictionem (nominative predictio), from Latin praedictio "a foretelling," noun of action from past participle stem of praedicere (see predict).

Wiktionary
prediction

n. A statement of what will happen in the future.

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WordNet
prediction

  1. n. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) [syn: anticipation, prevision]

  2. a statement made about the future [syn: foretelling, forecasting, prognostication]

Wikipedia
Prediction

A prediction ( Latin præ-, "before," and dicere, "to say"), or forecast, is a statement about an uncertain event. It is often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge. There is no universal agreement about the exact difference between the two terms; different authors and disciplines ascribe different connotations.

Although guaranteed accurate information about the future is in many cases impossible, prediction can be useful to assist in making plans about possible developments; Howard H. Stevenson writes that prediction in business "... is at least two things: Important and hard."

Prediction (disambiguation)

A Prediction is a statement or claim that a particular event will occur in the future.

Prediction may also refer to:

  • "Prediction", a song by Steel Pulse from their 1978 album Handsworth Revolution
  • "The Prediction", a song by Nas from his 1999 album Nastradamus
  • "The Prediction", a song by A Thorn for Every Heart from their 2004 album Things Aren't So Beautiful Now
  • PREDICT, an Internet traffic data repository, or the PREDICT Coordination Center, both sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security
Prediction (film)

Prediction (, translit. Predskazaniye) is a 1993 russian film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film is a fantastical melodrama and thriller.

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Usage examples of "prediction".

The accomplishment of the prediction was forwarded by all the means that human prudence could supply.

At the time when this prediction is said to have been delivered, no prophecy could be more distant from its accomplishment, since the first twelve years of Heraclius announced the approaching dissolution of the empire.

Perhaps the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction, of a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable.

From the summit he was cast down headlong, and dashed in pieces on the pavement, in the presence of innumerable spectators, who filled the forum of Taurus, and admired the accomplishment of an old prediction, which was explained by this singular event.

Had he allowed that ominous prediction to remain unchallenged, Roger knew he would never have been allowed a glimpse into a world unlike any he had ever known, one that had long been solidified by great affluence and grandly imposing estates nestled in the rolling countryside northeast of Bath.

He also wrote of his feelings about the peculiarly alluring cave, and of his predictions of what he would find.

The worst part, as the meteorologist said later, was realizing that his own prediction was on its way to Dhrawn and nothing could stop it.

The predictions are to be audited and the man with the best record automatically becomes Prime Predictor regardless of his political beliefs or his alliances.

California State and local governments to prepare an integrated prototype preparedness plan to respond to a catastrophic earthquake in Southern California or to a prediction of such an event.

The subsequent discoveries of gallium, scandium, and germanium bore out his predictions.

Justin showed in the Dialogue that, independently of the theologoumenon of the Logos, he was firmly convinced of the divinity of Christ on the ground of predictions and of the impression made by his personality.

First, beyond the fact that it is a mathematically coherent theory, the only reason we believe in quantum mechanics is because it yields predictions that have been verified to astounding accuracy.

But the effort has been well worth it: the calculations yield predictions about electrons that have been experimentally verified to an accuracy of better than one part in a billion.

By the late 1970s and early 1980s many of its predictions had been verified experimentally, and most particle physicists concluded that it was just a matter of time before the rest were confirmed as well.

But, obviously, in the context of second-century apologetics, this could be taken as a false prediction.