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FUTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("future" is a kind of...):
commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "future"):
oil future; petroleum future (petroleum bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date)
soybean future (soybeans bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date)
wheat future (wheat bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("future" is a kind of...):
tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The time yet to come
Synonyms:
future; futurity; hereafter; time to come
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("future" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "future"):
kingdom come (the end of time)
by-and-by (an indefinite time in the future)
offing (the near or foreseeable future)
tomorrow (the near future)
manana (an indefinite time in the future)
Antonym:
past (the time that has elapsed)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
Example:
our next president
Synonyms:
future; next; succeeding
Classified under:
Similar:
incoming (arriving at a place or position)
Derivation:
futurity (the quality of being in or of the future)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Yet to be or coming
Example:
some future historian will evaluate him
Classified under:
Similar:
approaching; coming; forthcoming; upcoming (of the relatively near future)
future-day (yet to come)
early (expected in the near future)
emerging; rising (coming to maturity)
in store (in readiness; awaiting)
prox; proximo (in or of the next month after the present)
Also:
incoming (arriving at a place or position)
prospective (of or concerned with or related to the future)
Attribute:
timing (the time when something happens)
Antonym:
past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
present (temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration)
Derivation:
futurity (the quality of being in or of the future)
futurity (the time yet to come)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Effective in or looking toward the future
Example:
he was preparing for future employment opportunities
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
prospective (of or concerned with or related to the future)
Derivation:
futurity (the quality of being in or of the future)
futurity (the time yet to come)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened
Example:
future auxiliary
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Pertainym:
future (a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future)
Context examples:
But that mental power was yet in the future.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Indeed! I considered it a very natural and necessary one: he had talked of his future wife dying with him.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Buck wondered where they went, for they never came back; but the fear of the future was strong upon him, and he was glad each time when he was not selected.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
This can help the doctor plan future treatment.
(Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators, NIH)
Two key features of the immune system are the clonal expansion of B cells and T cells in response to antigens, and the potentiation of future immune responses by long-lived memory cells.
(OX40 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) I worry about what the future has in store.
(PDQUALIF - Worry about Future, NCI Thesaurus)
A place where drugs are received from manufacturer and stored for future shipment to other sites.
(Pharmacy Distribution Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The former do not metastasize and the latter two are associated with a future risk of stromal invasion and metastasis.
(Non-Malignant, NCI Thesaurus)
Not ever; at no time in the past (or future).
(Never, NCI Thesaurus)
