Preview vs Foresee - What's the difference?
preview | foresee |
A foretaste of something.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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Something seen in advance.
To anticipate; to predict.
* 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
* Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
(obsolete) To provide.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between preview and foresee
is that preview is to show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete while foresee is to anticipate; to predict.As a noun preview
is a foretaste of something.preview
English
Noun
(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; […].}}
Synonyms
* forelookforesee
English
Verb
- "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
- A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
- Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
