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Future vs Backcast - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between future and backcast

is that future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced while backcast is a cast or throw back.

As adjectives the difference between future and backcast

is that future is having to do with or occurring in the future while backcast is retrospective.

As a verb backcast is

to identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

As an adverb backcast is

long ago; in the past.

future

English

(wikipedia future)

Noun

  • The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
  • Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  • Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
  • (finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
  • Usage notes

    * (finance) The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it. * (finance) A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in future is called forward or forward contract.

    Coordinate terms

    * (finance) forward

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having to do with or occurring in the future.
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  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • Derived terms

    * futurism * futurist * futuristic * retro future 1000 English basic words ----

    backcast

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
  • To change retrospectively; reverse.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cast or throw back.
  • A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
  • (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
  • Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
  • Retrospect; hindsight.
  • backwater
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Retrospective.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Long ago; in the past.
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