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predict | shadow |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between predict and shadow

is that predict is (obsolete) a prediction while shadow is (obsolete) a reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.

As verbs the difference between predict and shadow

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 shadow is to block light or radio transmission.

As nouns the difference between predict and shadow

is that predict is (obsolete) a prediction while shadow is a dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.

predict

English

(wikipedia predict)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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), " A Palette of Particles" in (American Scientist) , Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146
  • ::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.

    • Synonyms

    * (l),

    Related terms

    * predictable * predictability * predictably * predictive * predictively * predictiveness * predictor

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A prediction.
  • * 1609 , :
    • Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.

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    shadow

    English

    (wikipedia shadow)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
  • * Denham
    • Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise.
  • * Spenser
    • In secret shadow from the sunny ray, / On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid.
  • (obsolete) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • That which looms as though a shadow.
  • *
    • Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow' cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose ' shadow falls over us all.
  • A small degree; a shade.
  • * Bible, James i. 17
    • no variableness, neither shadow of turning
  • An imperfect and faint representation.
    • He came back from war the shadow of a man.
  • * Bible, Hebrews x. 1
    • the law having a shadow of good things to come
  • * Milton
    • [types] and shadows of that destined seed
  • One who secretly or furtively follows another.
  • * Milton
    • Sin and her shadow Death
  • A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
  • An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
  • *
  • A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hence, horrible shadow !
  • (obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
    • (Nares)

    Usage notes

    * A person (or object) is said to "cast", "have", or "throw" a shadow if that shadow is caused by the person (either literally, by eclipsing a light source, or figuratively). The shadow may then be described as the shadow "cast" or "thrown" by the person, or as the shadow "of" the person, or simply as the person's shadow.

    Derived terms

    * backshadowing * foreshadowing * rain shadow * shadow acting * shadow boxing * shadow cabinet * shadow government * shadow minister * shadow play * shadow price * sideshadowing * unshadow

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To block light or radio transmission.
    • Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us.
  • (espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
  • To accompany a professional during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
  • (programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
  • (computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).

    • Derived terms

    * overshadow