to forecast
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2.5
- verb
- /ˈfɔrˌkæst/
:
predecir
- 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
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3.8
To think about something to find an answer
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3.0
To say what will happen in the future
765
2.8
To make a rough calculation of how much or how many something is
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3.4
To think or believe something is true
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3.2
To expect that something will happen
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3.9
To know or expect something before it happens
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3.4
To figure out what will happen using information you have
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7.0
To say what will happen in the future
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6.2
To give a small sign that something will happen in the future
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7.2
To be a sign that something good or bad will happen
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8.8
To show that something bad will happen
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8.6
To be a sign that something will happen
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9.3
To say what will happen in the future using clues
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9.3
To be a sign of something
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8.0
To be a sign that something will happen later
To know something before it happens
To say what will happen by reading signs
Compounds
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3.8
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.