PREDICT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predict mean? 

• PREDICT (verb)
  The verb PREDICT has 2 senses:

1. make a prediction about; tell in advance

2. indicate, as with a sign or an omen

  Familiarity information: PREDICT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDICT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they predict    ... he / she / it predicts   
Past simple: predicted   
Past participle: predicted   
-ing form: predicting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a prediction about; tell in advance

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

anticipate; call; forebode; foretell; predict; prognosticate; promise

Context example:

Call the outcome of an election

Hypernyms (to "predict" is one way to...):

guess; hazard; pretend; venture (put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "predict"):

read (interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior)

outguess; second-guess (attempt to anticipate or predict)

augur (predict from an omen)

bet; wager (maintain with or as if with a bet)

calculate; forecast (predict in advance)

prophesy; vaticinate (predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

prediction (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))

predictive (of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions)

predictor (someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Indicate, as with a sign or an omen

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate

Context example:

These signs bode bad news

Hypernyms (to "predict" is one way to...):

bespeak; betoken; indicate; point; signal (be a signal for or a symptom of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "predict"):

threaten (to be a menacing indication of something)

foreshow (foretell by divine inspiration)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

predictive (of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions)

 Context examples 

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last predicted excretion rate, divided by the surface area.

(AURC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last predicted excretion rate, divided by the dose.

(AURC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the moment curve (AUMC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the weight.

(AUMC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last predicted excretion rate, divided by the weight.

(AURC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

BCSC-1, encoded by the LOH11CR2A gene, is a predicted 438-amino acid protein.

(BCSC-1, NCI Thesaurus)

N Domain is one of the seven predicted immunoglobulin-like domains that members of the CEA family protein have.

(N Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

The use of statistical analysis, computer analysis, or model organisms to predict outcomes of research.

(Modeling, NCI Thesaurus)

The putative open reading frame encodes alternative 872-aa or 1,165-aa proteins, each with several predicted membrane-spanning domains.

(MLSN1 and TRP-Related Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the first moment curve (AUMC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last predicted concentration divided by the weight.

(AUMC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

Furthermore, combining both AI-found features and the human-established criteria predicted the recurrence more accurately than using either method alone (AUC=0.842).

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)