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Grammar : Verb
Spell : pri-dikt
Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈdɪkt

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Définition of predict

Origin :
  • 1620s (implied in predicted), "foretell, prophesy," a back formation from prediction or else from Latin praedicatus, past participle of praedicere "foretell, advise, give notice," from prae "before" (see pre-) + dicere "to say" (see diction). Related: Predicted; predicting.
  • verb express an outcome in advance
Example sentences :
  • I ventured to predict that success awaited him in the rubber business.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1. No. 20, August 13, 1870 » by Various
  • The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • What doom or what disaster did this storm typify and predict?
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • It is easy to predict that the day will come when there will be need of each of these manouvres.
  • Extract from : « On Horsemanship » by Xenophon
  • So I forbore to predict what would be his ultimate form of beauty.
  • Extract from : « Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad » by Various
  • What other unexpected qualities the Yankees might show no one could predict.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
  • Who so bold as to predict what, while he is yet speaking, may be contradicted?
  • Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
  • What would he have thought of him who should predict such a future as this for him?
  • Extract from : « St. Patrick's Eve » by Charles James Lever
  • It enables us to predict where satellites will be abundant and where they will be absent.
  • Extract from : « Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I » by Herbert Spencer
  • They predict events with too much accuracy not to have a hand in their fulfilment.
  • Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever

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