Verb
predict (third-person singular simple present predicts, present participle predicting, simple past and past participle predicted)
- (transitive) 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, section 40:
2012, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 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.
- (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) 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.
1996 June 3, Geoffrey Cowley, “The biology of beauty”, in Newsweek:For both men and women, greater symmetry predicted a larger number of past sex partners.
- (intransitive) To make predictions.
- 1652, J. Gaule, Πυς-μαντια 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.
Translations
to state, or make something known in advance
- Arabic: تَنَبَّأَ (tanabbaʔa)
- Armenian: կանխատեսել (hy) (kanxatesel)
- Asturian: predicir (ast), augurar (ast)
- Basque: aurresan
- Bulgarian: прогнозирам impf (prognoziram), предсказвам (bg) impf (predskazvam), предскажа pf (predskaža)
- Catalan: predir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 預測 / 预测 (zh) (yùcè), 預言 / 预言 (zh) (yùyán)
- Czech: předpovídat (cs) impf, předpovědět pf, předvídat (cs) impf
- Dutch: voorspellen (nl)
- Egyptian: (sr)
- Estonian: ennustama
- Finnish: ennakoida (fi), ennustaa (fi)
- French: prédire (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: vorhersagen (de)
- Greek: προβλέπω (el) (provlépo)
- Hungarian: megjósol (hu), előrejelez (hu)
- Icelandic: spá (is)
- Ido: predicar (io)
- Interlingua: predicer
- Irish: tuar (ga), réamhaithris
- Italian: predire (it)
- Japanese: 予言する (ja) (よげんする, yogen suru)
- Khmer: ចាប់យាម (cap yiem), ទាយ (km) (tiey)
- Korean: 예언하다 (ko) (yeeonhada), 예측하다 (ko) (yecheukhada)
- Lao: ທຳນວາຍ (thamn wāi)
- Latin: praeloquor, praedico (la), ōminor, cano (la)
- Latvian: paredzēt (lv)
- Macedonian: предвидува impf (predviduva), предвиди pf (predvidi)
- Maori: matakite, matapae
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: spå
- Old Norse: spá
- Persian: پیشگویی (fa)
- Piedmontese: predì
- Polish: przewidywać (pl), przewidzieć (pl)
- Portuguese: predizer (pt)
- Romanian: prezice (ro)
- Russian: предска́зывать (ru) impf (predskázyvatʹ), предсказа́ть (ru) pf (predskazátʹ)
- Scots: spae
- Serbo-Croatian: predvidjeti (sh), prognozirati (sh), predskazati (sh)
- Slovak: predpovedať impf
- Spanish: predecir (es)
- Swahili: bashiri (sw)
- Swedish: förutsäga (sv), spå (sv), sia (sv)
- Thai: ทำนาย (th) (tam-naai)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: öngörmek (tr), tahmin etmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: передбачувати impf (peredbačuvaty), передбачити pf (peredbačyty)
- Vietnamese: dự báo
- Volapük: büosagön (vo)
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