Precursor vs Portend - What's the difference?
precursor | portend |
That which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.
to serve as a warning or omen
* John Milton, Paradise Lost
to signify; to denote
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
, work=The Onion AV Club
As a noun precursor
is that which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events.As a verb portend is
to serve as a warning or omen.precursor
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Alternative forms
* (chiefly obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
Anagrams
* ----portend
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Verb
(en verb)- A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,
- Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
citation, page= , passage=When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended , Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.}}