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PREDICT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicate, as with a sign or an omen

Example:

These signs bode bad news

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a prediction about; tell in advance

Example:

Call the outcome of an election

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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))

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 Context examples: 

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity from dosing time, based on the predicted last concentration, divided by the surface area.

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

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the body mass index.

(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity from dosing time, based on the predicted last concentration, divided by the body mass index.

(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

Forced vital capacity as a proportion of the predicted normal value.

(Percent Predicted Forced Vital Capacity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

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

(AUMC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

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

(AUMC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Surface Area, 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 dose.

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

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

(AUMC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

The maximum volume of air a subject can inhale into the lungs after a tidal inhalation as a proportion of the predicted normal value.

(Percent Predicted Inspiratory Reserve Volume, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The volume of air moved into and out of the lungs during breathing at rest as a proportion of the predicted normal value.

(Percent Predicted Tidal Volume, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)