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Preview vs Forecast - What's the difference?

preview | forecast |

As nouns the difference between preview and forecast

is that preview is a foretaste of something while forecast is an estimation of a future condition.

As verbs the difference between preview and forecast

is that preview is to show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete while forecast is to estimate how something will be in the future.

preview

English

Noun

(wikipedia preview) (en noun)
  • A foretaste of something.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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; […].}}
  • (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
  • Something seen in advance.
  • Synonyms

    * forelook

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.
  • forecast

    Verb

  • To estimate how something will be in the future.
  • to forecast the weather
    to forecast a storm
  • (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
  • * Milton
  • If it happen as I did forecast .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An estimation of a future condition.
  • A prediction of the weather.
  • :* What's the forecast for tomorrow?