predicting

Verb

predict (third-person singular simple present predicts, present participle predicting, simple past and past participle predicted)

1. (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.
   • After he had renounced his fathers bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of Cesar, was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, Aut Cesar, aut nihil. which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the euent the same predicted.1590, E. Daunce, A Briefe Discourse on the Spanish State, section 40
2. (transitive, usually, laws) To imply.
   • It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.1886, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 177. 338
3. (intransitive) To make predictions.
   • The devil can both predict and make predictors.1652, J. Gaule, Πυς-μαντια the mag-astro-mancer, 196
4. (rare, transitive) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
   • They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.1943, L. Cheshire, Bomber Pilot, iii. 57

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