| Front | predict |
|---|---|
| Pron | [prɪ'dɪkt] |
| Back | 【PREDICT】 The weather service predicts heavy rain for tomorrow. 气象服务台预测明天有大雨。 【重点词汇】 predict v. 预测 同: foretell |
| Vocab | predictmake a prediction about; tell in advance
To predict is to say what you think is going to happen in the future. If you predict that you'll win the poker championship, you're either really confident in your poker skills or you're cheating. The prefix pre means "before." Dict comes from the Latin dicere, which means "to say", yet you can use predict to refer to things that can't say anything at all. Darkening skies can predict a coming storm, for example, and a runny nose can predict a cold. You can predict something based on factual evidence, or on a crystal-ball reading, or just on plain intuition. All forms of 'predict' will appear on average once every 183 pages. predict predictable prediction predictive predictor predictability predictably unpredictable unpredicted unpredictive unpredictability unpredictably |
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