Predict vs Preview - What's the difference?
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To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
*1590 , E. Daunce, A Briefe Discourse on the Spanish State , 40
*:After he had renounced his father]]s bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of , was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, Aut Cesar, aut nihil . which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the [[event, euent the same predicted .
:2000 , , (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) , xiii.
::Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.
:2012 , (Jeremy Bernstein), "
::The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
To imply.
*1886 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 177. 338
*:It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.
To make predictions.
*1652 , J. Gaule, ???-?????? the mag-astro-mancer , 196
*:The devil can both predict and make predictors.
(transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
*1943 , L. Cheshire, Bomber Pilot , iii. 57
*:They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.
(obsolete) A prediction.
* 1609 , :
A foretaste of something.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
Something seen in advance.
As verbs the difference between predict and preview
is that predict is to make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power while preview is to show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.As nouns the difference between predict and preview
is that predict is (obsolete) a prediction while preview is a foretaste of something.predict
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(wikipedia predict)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)A Palette of Particles" in (American Scientist) , Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146
Synonyms
* (l),Noun
(en noun)- Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.
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(wikipedia preview) (en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
