Verb

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(predict)

:2006 , Christopher Baum, An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata , iv. 104

;:There are two commonly used definitions of "prediction", the predicted' value and the forecast. The ' predicted value estimates the average value of the dependent variable for given values of the regressors.

: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.

Verb

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(desire)

Verb

(desir)

To want; to wish for earnestly.

* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24

Neither shall any man desire thy land.

* Tennyson

Ye desire your child to live.

To put a request to (someone); to entreat.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:

And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.

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To want emotionally or sexually.

To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.

* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28

Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?

* Shakespeare

Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.

To require; to demand; to claim.

* Spenser

A doleful case desires a doleful song.

To miss; to regret.

* Jeremy Taylor

She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.