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forecast

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Word definitions for forecast in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop [syn: prognosis ] v. predict in advance [syn: calculate ] judge to be probable [syn: calculate , estimate , reckon , count on , figure ] indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An estimation of a future condition. 2 A prediction of the weather. vb. 1 To estimate how something will be in the future. 2 (context obsolete English) To contrive or plan beforehand.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forecast \Fore"cast\, n. Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination. He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves. --Addison. 2. A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to scheme," from fore- "before" + casten in the sense of "contrive, plan, prepare" (late 14c.; see cast (v.)). Meaning "predict events" first attested late 15c. ( cast (v.) "to perceive, notice" is from late 14c.). Related: Forecasted ; forecasting ...

Usage examples of forecast.

By the exercise of the gift of divination it would seem that Hassan of Aleppo had forecast the future history of the accursed slipper or believed that he had done so.

As the forecast is now that Benghazi cannot be captured till the end of February, it is necessary that this should be impressed upon General Wavell.

The revolutionary forecast that bombs might actually be carried from one country to another and dropped on cities proved remarkably prophetic.

He refurbishes the Mercedes star, forecasts the rise and fall of Borgward, disposes of Marshall Plan funds, is present when the Ruhr Authority meets, dismisses the Constitution before it is approved by the Parliamentary Council, fixes the date of the currency reform, counts votes before the first Bundestag elections are held, builds the imminent Korean crisis into the shipbuilding program of the Howaldt Works of Kiel and Hamburg, arranges the Petersberg Agreement, picks a certain Dr.

By 6:30, when Carrara was able to leave his office, the parking lot had been plowed, although the forecast was for more of the white stuff overnight.

Farther off was an area of dark mist that spread along the horizon, broken its entire length by a range of forbidding-looking mountains about ten sizes bigger than the ones we had passed through after leaving Klamath Falls, their peaks set so close together, they might have been a graph forecasting the progress of a spectacularly erratic business.

Naturally, these forecasts tended to reflect the response of the current market and current customers and tended to discount the possible response of other markets and customers.

The latest information on long-scale weather forecasting through direct observation of terrestrial jet-streams would not compare with radioscopes and proton storms.

The latest information on long-scale weather forecasting through direct observation of terrestrial jet streams would not compare with radioscopes and protonstorms.

It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.

Knowing how hard she was going to have ii to work, she forced herself to eat some breakfast, switching on the radio so that she could listen to the weather forecast while she ate.

I seemed particularly to be consulted by racehorse trainers seeking perfect underfoot conditions for their speedy hopefuls, even though we did run forecasts dedicated to particular events.

Caspar Harvey lunch was one of those times when I gave the top two forecasts, at six-thirty and nine-thirty each evening, daily working out the probable path of air masses and going in front of the cameras at peak times to put my assessments on the line.

I would be happy to help him with last-minute underfoot forecasts, I murmured.

A turbid flood of ideas, of vague surmises, of apprehensions, of forecasts, swept across her consciousness.