to forecast
- verb
- /ˈfɔrˌkæst/
- Intellectuals and chambers of commerce worldwide have forecast huge benefits and profits from increased global economic transactions.
- forecast the weather
- ability to forecast
- models forecast
Knowing what has been, he can forecast what will be.
- Knowing what has been, he can forecast what will be.
- When you look at the six major resources KCM uses to forecast future conditions, they all agree.
- And of course there will be hurricanes and we can only forecast them.
- it is a rainy Gray morning and it it's not rainy, I lied. It's Gray and it's forecast to rain,
- Today in the Oval Office, our weather tracker in chief explained why Dorian has been so hard to forecast.
- So you can't forecast that you don't pay that.
- You know, he says that earnings have no means in terms of forecasting right now.
- We've got very rich data on current weather as well as forecasted weather.
- and my I might be able to be trained on those things. I can't forecast that,
Examples
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Heavy rain is forecast in Northern Thailand as the monsoon season starts early.
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Are we going to try to forecast trend on that basis?
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Knowing what has been, he can forecast what will be.
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I, I forecast the world five years from now.
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As was forecast, we have our first touch of rain.
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Captain Grant might be able to forecast something Ali is going to do before he does it.
Fiction book (1996) -
Because we were able to predict, to forecast what the observers would see.
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At the National Hurricane Center in Miami, experts use satellites to forecast when and where hurricanes will form.
Academic text (2011) -
Finally, no significant political upheavals are forecast, implying an uninterrupted flow of investment and production.
Academic text (1990) -
The meteorologist will forecast sunny weather for the weekend based on the latest data.
Synonyms
To think about something to find an answer
To say what will happen in the future
To make a rough calculation of how much or how many something is
To think or believe something is true
To expect that something will happen
To know or expect something before it happens
To figure out what will happen using information you have
To say what will happen in the future
To give a small sign that something will happen in the future
To be a sign that something good or bad will happen
To show that something bad will happen
To be a sign that something will happen
To say what will happen in the future using clues
To be a sign of something
To be a sign that something will happen later
To know something before it happens
To say what will happen by reading signs
Compounds
An estimate of a company's future income, costs, and money coming in and out
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Forecast comes from two parts: fore- 'before' and cast 'throw', so you can imagine 'throwing' your view forward to see what will happen. That's why to forecast is to predict something before it happens.