Speech vs Predict - What's the difference?
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(label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
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(label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
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A style of speaking.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A dialect or language.
* Bible, (w) iii. 6
Talk; mention; rumour.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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.
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::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.
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As nouns the difference between speech and predict
is that speech is spoke (part of a wheel) while predict is (obsolete) a prediction.As a verb 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.speech
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Noun
(wikipedia speech)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech . In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
- people of a strange speech
- The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.
Derived terms
* after-dinner speech * byspeech * figure of speech * pressure of speech * pressured speech * speech recognition * speechwriterStatistics
*Anagrams
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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.