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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
predictable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Governments should aim to make their policy instruments as predictable as possible soas to minimize confusion and hence undesirable fluctuations in output.
▪ The review: Vitale sightings at this time of the year are as predictable as receiving fruitcake at Christmas.
▪ The last round can therefore be written off as predictable.
▪ The effect of chronic alcohol abuse on gastric acid secretion is not as predictable.
entirely
▪ According to current theories, all of this is entirely predictable, depending solely upon the distance the Earth is from the Sun.
▪ The amount of delegation that occurs is thus highly variable and seldom entirely predictable.
▪ The reasons are, of course, entirely predictable.
▪ The development of alliances Neither bloc was monolithic nor entirely predictable at the outset.
▪ The fact that there was resistance to these proposals was entirely predictable.
fairly
▪ Where such chains exist, an apparently random journey through a network becomes a fairly predictable matter.
▪ Some people respond to the cycle of failure and depression in fairly predictable ways.
▪ He was fairly predictable except in one important respect.
▪ The Panthers' offense is fairly predictable, and the 49ers spent the offseason studying their defense.
▪ That was all fairly predictable, and unlikely to prove of lasting damage.
▪ He began his speech in fairly predictable, George Bush style, slow and a bit boring.
▪ Here no language is presented in the programme, but the situations mimed are ones where the language would be fairly predictable.
▪ Economic perceptions were fairly predictable in the Pre-Campaign Wave and became more so towards the end of the campaign.
highly
▪ In one condition, the target word was highly predictable from the context.
▪ In both cases, the results are at first glance highly predictable.
▪ Their movements are therefore highly predictable, which gives tidal power a distinct advantage over many other renewable energy forms.
▪ The timing of showers is highly predictable: from year to year meteor showers occur on the same dates.
▪ Everyday experience is generally highly predictable and so rarely offers such surprises.
▪ For this we need material which provides as much visual support as possible and situations where the language is highly predictable.
less
▪ The harmonic language has become more complex, less predictable, too.
▪ Chaotic mechanisms could also serve to make a population less predictable to a predator.
▪ Relative preferences for the Alliance were much less predictable than for Labour or Conservative. 2.
▪ This means that the performance of human systems tends to be far more variable and less predictable than that of mechanical systems.
▪ Volatility increased, and the extent as well as the direction of change became less predictable.
▪ And yet, all of these attempts have only made for a less predictable existence.
▪ At the time the critics were less predictable.
▪ His afternoons were much less predictable, and that was also when the bulk of Karen's contact hours were timetabled.
more
▪ Perceptions of Labour chances remained more predictable, though they too became rather more homogeneous as the campaign came to an end.
▪ Moreover, they removed any information from the files that might make their work more predictable.
▪ Natural yeasts are killed with chemicals, and a more predictable yeast added.
▪ This is a much more predictable menace, however, at least to those in major league baseball.
▪ But other environmental changes are more predictable.
▪ The result should be health care that is more predictable and efficient.
▪ The big A Corner of Old Paris, 1926 is a more predictable pastel with its calm serenity and attention to detail.
▪ Sometimes the emphasis on gender politics sounds more predictable or heavy handed.
most
▪ The most predictable usefulness ratings were those for PEBs.
▪ The most predictable compensation is the hyperventilation that occurs in simple metabolic acidosis.
▪ The Carrera 4 on damp surfaces is probably the fastest and most predictable car in the world.
▪ The most predictable event in our world is change.
so
▪ His criticisms have become so predictable and strongly worded that they are counter-productive.
▪ But their characters are so mass-produced and their actions so predictable that the whole thing smells like an old cedar chest.
▪ They use a business language that is so predictable and going out and doing it is not part of the course.
▪ It was not quite so predictable that he would become one of the most addicted poker players in town.
▪ It is so predictable as to be almost inevitable.
▪ The interchange is so predictable that it is almost a ritual.
▪ It was at once reassuring and depressing to find life's major events so predictable in their repetition.
▪ His own life had been so sheltered, so steady, so predictable.
too
▪ Work bored her - it was too predictable.
▪ It is too predictable, too easy to draw up, too safe.
▪ Resolute Of late they have simply become too predictable when seeking the back of the net.
▪ Then again, perhaps a scaled down 5-series would have been too predictable.
▪ There is fun to be had in Ferguson's dismantling of illusions, but sometimes the candidates for dismissal are too predictable.
▪ In these circumstances, the conclusions of the Committee were all too predictable.
very
▪ When this point is reached, currency values have to change in a very predictable manner.
▪ What sets these patients off is often something very predictable.
▪ This is becoming a very predictable recommendation.
■ NOUN
consequence
▪ Nevertheless, the artificial fluoridation of a community water supply does have certain predictable consequences.
pattern
▪ Hoe many of us could 7 survive for long without some predictable pattern or regularity in our lives?
▪ It was another violent shift in a life and a career which never had an even, an easy or predictable pattern.
▪ But is there a predictable pattern behind their panache?
▪ Many of these exchanges followed a predictable pattern.
▪ What happens to those who step outside the predictable patterns and regularities?
▪ The gender distribution also followed a predictable pattern, with the overwhelming majority, 85 percent, being male.
▪ The passengers drifted in from their rooms and the dome car and fell into by now predictable patterns of seating.
▪ I noted in chapter 1 that the contemporary evidence suggests predictable patterns of the flow of support between generations.
result
▪ The whole effect is as if an aftermarket body-kit specialist has had a go at embellishing a 911, with the predictable result.
▪ This organized feeding of the media produced predictable results.
▪ The violence on May Day was the direct and predictable result of the absence of boundaries and the abdication of responsibility.
▪ Louis and New Orleans are all starting over this season with new coaches, with predictable results.
▪ We now know that scientific management had a predictable result.
way
▪ Most disaster aid will continue to go to road building, housing and relocating people out of harm's predictable way.
▪ Some people respond to the cycle of failure and depression in fairly predictable ways.
▪ As he varied the position of the food source, the dance varied in a predictable way.
▪ The toddlers react to a visitor in predictable ways.
▪ Cooking huge meals was another predictable way she had of showing love for her family.
▪ They concluded that people as a whole react to events and to social and economic changes in reasonable and predictable ways.
▪ According to their particular view of life, individuals always act in an orderly and predictable way.
▪ And just like individual people, organizations develop predictable ways of responding to challenge and change.
ways
▪ Bureaucratic control binds individuals through incentives and disincentives to behave in predictable ways.
▪ Some people respond to the cycle of failure and depression in fairly predictable ways.
▪ The toddlers react to a visitor in predictable ways.
▪ They concluded that people as a whole react to events and to social and economic changes in reasonable and predictable ways.
▪ And just like individual people, organizations develop predictable ways of responding to challenge and change.
▪ That is, events might not have continued behaving in the regular and predictable ways that could be described by such laws.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Horror movies can be so predictable.
▪ In the current economic climate it is fairly predictable that unemployment will continue to rise.
▪ My dad's so predictable - every evening he comes home, has two beers, and falls asleep in front of the TV.
▪ The drug is usually effective but unfortunately the side effects are not always predictable.
▪ The movie was completely predictable - I couldn't wait for it to end.
▪ There are few predictable elements to this conflict -- the only certainty is that the situation will worsen before it gets better.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Atkinson wanted the commands to be geographically predictable, the same place in every application.
▪ But in actuality, disambiguation is not unprincipled and random; rather, it is usually quite predictable.
▪ I looked at her, I go, am I that predictable?
▪ Norden said the predictable schedule at the Wal-Mart center should be attractive to over-the-road drivers.
▪ The end twist clicks into place in a satisfying, if slightly predictable, way.
▪ The notes are sadly predictable, however, in their dogmatism.
▪ The Panthers' offense is fairly predictable, and the 49ers spent the offseason studying their defense.
▪ This was predictable, though, looking back at historical evidence relating to a Friday Christmas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predictable

Predictable \Pre*dict"a*ble\, a. That may be predicted.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
predictable

1820, from predict + -able. Related: Predictably, which in the sense "as could have been predicted" is attested from 1914.

Wiktionary
predictable

a. able to be predicted.

WordNet
predictable

adj. possible to foretell [ant: unpredictable]

Wikipedia
Predictable (Delta Goodrem song)

"Predictable" is a pop rock song written by Kara DioGuardi, Delta Goodrem and Jarrad Rogers, recorded by Goodrem for her first album Innocent Eyes (2003). Released in the last quarter of 2003, the single peaked at number-one on the Australian ARIA Charts, becoming Goodrem's fifth number-one single in Australia. This achievement broke the record set by Goodrem for the most consecutive number-ones from a debut album; the original record was held by Kylie Minogue. Due to Goodrem's cancer treatment, she was unable to shoot an accompanying film clip; Sony used a live video to represent the song. The live video was shot at the headquarters for Channel V in July 2003.

The song was produced by John Fields in Los Angeles. Originally, the demo version of the song was rather different from the end product; however, Goodrem desired the song to have a rock edge to it, thus asking Fields to help produce it. The song is set around the theme of a girl rejecting the advances of a man, because she can see through his facade, and knows that if she lets him enter her life, she will end up heartbroken. The song was chosen by Goodrem's record company, Sony, to be the last single to represent the album Innocent Eyes.

The single was released with three different, collectable picture discs, and faced competition from international and local acts and debuted at number two, behind the first Australian Idol, Guy Sebastian. Due to her illness and treatment, the single received little promotion but two weeks after release, the song reached number one. The single remained in the top ten for eight weeks and became the seventeenth-highest-selling single in Australia for 2003.

During the first season of Australian Idol in the wildcard week, contestant Cosima De Vito performed her version of "Predictable" to get into the top 12.

Predictable (Good Charlotte song)

"Predictable" is the first and lead single taken from American rock band Good Charlotte's third studio album, The Chronicles of Life and Death. This was the first single released that featured Chris Wilson as the band's drummer. This is not to be confused with " The Anthem", which was the first video to feature Wilson. The song reached number one on November 12, 2004, on the MuchMusic Countdown. It was released in a Japanese version. In the Japanese version, only Benji Madden sang the Japanese part, because he was the only one who knew Japanese. The video, inspired by the film Edward Scissorhands, takes place in a town drawn by the guitarist Billy Martin, with the band in a house singing the English version. But the Japanese version was dubbed over the English audio.

This song was used for a commercial of Donkey Konga 2, and members of Good Charlotte also appear in the commercial.

Predictable

Predictable may refer to:

  • Something which shows predictability
  • "Predictable" (Delta Goodrem song), 2003
  • "Predictable" (Good Charlotte song), 2004
  • "Predictable" (The Kinks song), 1981
  • "Predictable", a song by The Mr. T Experience from their 1988 album Night Shift at the Thrill Factory
  • "Predictable", a song by Avail from their 1992 album Satiate
  • "Predictable", a song by Korn from their 1993 EP Neidermeyer's Mind, and the eighth song of their 1994 album Korn
  • "Predictable", a song by Pete Townshend from his 1993 album Psychoderelict
Predictable (The Kinks song)

"Predictable" is the fourth track from The Kinks' 1981 album, Give the People What They Want. It was written by Ray Davies.

Usage examples of "predictable".

After making appointments, writing schedules, letters, and notes that would allow our household to continue in its predictable harmony, she marked the mirror in her hotel room with an annulling X in bright red lipstick, paid her bill with cash, flirted with, the doorman, and gave a large tip to the boy who brought her the car.

We have scientific evidence that the parapsychic faculty exists and can be used, at will, with predictable result.

Ken Lanning outlines three types of preferential molester, based on the different but predictable behavior patterns they exhibit: seduction, introverted, and sadistic.

America is to become a completely predictable, run-of-the-mill, redistributionist Democrat.

Her eyelids drooped, and she fell into her recurring dream of the sleeping dragon, focusing on the smooth scaleless skin of its chest, a patch of whiteness that came to surround her, to draw her into a world of whiteness with the serene constancy of its rhythmic rise and fall, as unvarying and predictable as the ticking of a perfect clock.

Terrorists are stateless and constantly on the move, their organizational structures are always in flux, and the only thing that is predictable is that they will be unpredictable.

The stately, unmodulated modes had, over the centuries, given way, first to the strict and predictable division of major and minor, and then to the polymorphous fire of chromatics, the black flame of harmonic minor and diminished scales.

It was as predictable and as unpreventable as the tides or the phases of the moon.

The kink is one of those anomalies that reinforces a theory because, in retrospect, it should have been predictable.

Among the Klingons, who were familiar with stasis boxes and their properties, the reaction was much more predictable.

Grantville glass companies can make glass production more predictable by purifying the silica and the glass modifiers, so that the glassmakers know just how much of each ingredient they are adding to the melt.

The other, negative view is that Livers in power creates a second entity we have to protect against, and an unknown and less predictable one than the Sleeper aristocracy.

All these patterns had been verified in the laboratory through microscopic analysis, the markings clearly indicative of a culture that perceived the notion of time itself as a nonrandom process that enabled humans to reckon their acts and conduct their lives against a fairly predictable setting of climate, geography and celestial event.

Net yields from nonrenewable reserves, residues and substitutes had dwindled until exhaustion was certain and a timeline predictable.

Coming to work was stimulating, even exciting, which was a far cry from how Jack had felt in his former life as an ophthalmologist, when each day had been comfortable but utterly predictable.