predictionn.

Brit.

/prᵻˈdɪkʃn/, U.S.

/priˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/,

/prəˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s–1600s praediction, 1500s– prediction.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin praedictiōn-, praedictiō.

Etymology: < classical Latin praedictiōn-, praedictiō act of mentioning in advance, prediction, prophecy < praedict- , past participial stem of praedīcere predict v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French prédiction (1509).

a. The action of predicting future events; an instance of this, a prophecy, a forecast.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun]

prophecyc1330

prognosticationc1450

foresaying1548

foretelling1548

prediction1561

foresignifying1592

predict1609

prenunciation1623

bodement1826

predication1845

second-guessing1946

1561 W. Fulke (title) Antiprognosticon, that is to saye, Inuectiue agaynst the uaine and vnprofitable Predictions of the Astrologians, as Nostrodame, etc., translated out of Latin.

1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1595) 1100 Aratus made no account of their prediction.

1590 H. Holland Treat. against Witchcraft i. sig. C3 ^v Noble men affecting prædictions greatly desired to heare, and to behold this pythonist.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 216 Dreames, and Predictions of Astrologie.

1655 W. Guild Anti-Christ pointed & painted Out i. 20 Clear Prophecies of the Old Testament..And, no lesse playn prædictions, & places of the New Testament.

1676 J. Glanvill Ess. i. 26 Had Authority prevail'd here,..Seneca's Prophesie had been an unfulfil'd Prediction.

1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxvii. 289 He was born at Bethlehem, according to the Prediction of the Prophet Micah.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. x. x. 60 My mother's predictions were always favourable to those who sollicited them.

1790 M. DeFleury Brit. Liberty Established iii. 32 Her hand divine prediction holds, The word of truth futurity unfolds.

1820 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily II. i. 21 His pretended skill in astrology and predictions of the fall of the Byzantine empire.

1861 Nat. Rev. Oct. 430 An author who evidently identifies prophecy with prediction.

1897 Daily News 19 Feb. 5/2 It entirely falsifies the predictions as to the ‘incalculableness’ of the female vote.

1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 85 On the basis of predictions made by human astronomers, the tide-predicting machine has been provided with 37 miniature suns and moons.

1980 I. Murdoch Nuns & Soldiers ii. 98 He..obliged the doctor's prediction by dying on Christmas Eve.

2004 New Yorker 30 Aug. 75/1 Some people shun pregame predictions, or best-ever lists.

†b. A portent or omen. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]

foretokenc888

tokeningc888

beaconc950

token971

handsela1200

boding1297

wonder1297

bodec1374

signa1387

foreboding1387

prenostica1393

prognosticc1425

prophetc1430

prognostication?a1439

ostentationa1450

prenostication?a1450

prodigy?a1450

augurationc1450

preparative1460

prenosticate?a1475

prenosticative?a1475

prodige1482

prenosticature1490

tokener1513

weird1513

show token1535

luck1538

prognosticate1541

preamble1548

proffer1548

presagition?c1550

foreshower1555

presage1560

portent1562

ostent1570

presagie1581

omen1582

presagement1586

luck sign1587

augury1588

prognosticon1588

forerunner1589

presager1591

halfner1594

spae1596

abode1598

oss1600

assign1601

augur1603

bodement1613

predictiona1616

prognosticala1618

bespeaker1624

portender1635

pre-indicant1659

foreshadow1834

boder1846

prognosticant1880

sky sign1880

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 28 Yet Cæsar shall go forth: for these Predictions Are to the world in generall, as to Cæsar.

†2. A previously made statement or assertion. Cf. predicted adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 38 I hope it shall not be said..that you can accuse his predictions, as erroneous, who never falsified his word with you.

Compounds

General attributive.

prediction paradox n.

ΚΠ

1951 Jrnl. Politics 13 86 We may be caught up in a strange paradox, the prediction paradox. Prediction, for us, is claimed to be both hazardous and harmful... But eventually we must predict, if we are to pretend to understand.

1952 Mind 61 265 I hope Mr. O'Connor will not mind my giving his paradox the new and somewhat more appropriate name of ‘the prediction paradox’.

2004 R. Sorensen in A. R. Mele & P. Rawling Oxf. Handbk. Rationality xiv. 267 The ‘prediction paradox’ was in discussion at Princeton University shortly after the war (at least among Kurt Gödel and his students).

prediction study n.

ΚΠ

1933 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 38 754 Prediction studies in the results of child guidance... Data are secured from case records and follow-up visits.

2002 Jrnl. Speech, Lang., & Hearing Res. (Nexis) 45 1142 In our prediction study..we found that the best kindergarten indicator of subsequent reading achievement was a measure of letter identification.

prediction table n.

ΚΠ

1885 Science Feb. 174/1 We find no changes in the adopted astronomical constants, nor have any new prediction-tables been substituted for those which have now been employed for many years.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. v. 70 Is it possible to work out a grand prediction table showing what treatment each individual should have?

2003 Times (Nexis) 13 Oct. 23 Most entertaining is the prediction table. Hull City fans will be pleased to see that on Friday it estimated they will finish top of the third division.

prediction value n.

ΚΠ

1933 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 19 1022 Where the Manerkonic section is relatively low, it means that for each M-region there is a wide range of offspring for each given prediction-value, and that more interacting genes..are involved.

1961 J. B. Wilson Reason & Morals iii. 144 Many scientists now use the prediction-value of scientific statements as virtually the only test of their truth.

2001 Internat. Jrnl. Clothing Sci. & Technol. (Nexis) 13 322 Network learning aims to reduce the delta between the target value and the prediction value.

Derivatives

preˈdictional adj. of, relating to, or of the nature of prediction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [adjective]

prognostical?a1450

prognostica1500

foreguessing1548

prognosticable1562

prophetical1567

prospective1581

prophetica1616

predictive1637

foretellinga1640

predictory1641

forespeaking1650

predictionala1661

prognosticatory1693

prognosticative1813

proleptic1858

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Oxf. 329 I conceive it properly to intend the contests betwixt Scholars and Scholars, which were observed predictional, as if their animosities were the Index of the Volume of the Land.

1923 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 86 541 The two aspects under which one may regard the calculus of correlations, namely, its purely predictional or descriptive aspect and the interpretative aspect.

1990 Statist. Sci. 5 286/1 I shall refer to the interpretational and predictional flexibility offered by the Bayesian paradigm to the scientists in making inferential assessments based on experimented evidence.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

predictionv.

Brit.

/prᵻˈdɪkʃn/, U.S.

/priˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/,

/prəˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prediction n.

Etymology: < prediction n. Compare earlier predict v.

rare.

transitive. To prophesy, foretell; = predict v. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > predict, foretell [verb (transitive)]

fore-sayc900

bodeOE

before-sayOE

before-tella1382

foretella1400

prognostica1400

tella1400

prenosticate?a1475

prenostic1477

prognosticatec1487

forespeak1489

prognostify1495

foreshow1561

prenunce1563

presage1569

boden1573

forewarn1582

predict1590

forehalsen1594

foresignify1597

prognosticon1602

predivine1607

forespell1611

predicate1623

prenuntiate1623

preadmonish1644

forebode1664

prediction1665

prenotea1711

bespeak1721

pre-announce1793

prophesize1848

to call for ——1895

pick1909

1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 30 What this deep Soothsayer prediction'd before in jest, he now cals for in earnest.

1956 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 14 June 19/5 Sen. Mundt..predictioned Thursday swift approval by Congress of a bill to plug what he termed ‘the great hole shot into our internal security’ by the Supreme Court.

2002 Futures (Nexis) 31 38 Many traders are correct in predictioning the ultimate market direction, but they just can't sustain the drawdown involved in most futures trades.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prediction
释义	predictionn. Brit. /prᵻˈdɪkʃn/, U.S. /priˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/, /prəˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s–1600s praediction, 1500s– prediction. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin praedictiōn-, praedictiō. Etymology: < classical Latin praedictiōn-, praedictiō act of mentioning in advance, prediction, prophecy < praedict- , past participial stem of praedīcere predict v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French prédiction (1509). 1. a. The action of predicting future events; an instance of this, a prophecy, a forecast. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] prophecyc1330 prognosticationc1450 foresaying1548 foretelling1548 prediction1561 foresignifying1592 predict1609 prenunciation1623 bodement1826 predication1845 second-guessing1946 1561 W. Fulke (title) Antiprognosticon, that is to saye, Inuectiue agaynst the uaine and vnprofitable Predictions of the Astrologians, as Nostrodame, etc., translated out of Latin. 1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1595) 1100 Aratus made no account of their prediction. 1590 H. Holland Treat. against Witchcraft i. sig. C3 ^v Noble men affecting prædictions greatly desired to heare, and to behold this pythonist. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 216 Dreames, and Predictions of Astrologie. 1655 W. Guild Anti-Christ pointed & painted Out i. 20 Clear Prophecies of the Old Testament..And, no lesse playn prædictions, & places of the New Testament. 1676 J. Glanvill Ess. i. 26 Had Authority prevail'd here,..Seneca's Prophesie had been an unfulfil'd Prediction. 1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxvii. 289 He was born at Bethlehem, according to the Prediction of the Prophet Micah. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. x. x. 60 My mother's predictions were always favourable to those who sollicited them. 1790 M. DeFleury Brit. Liberty Established iii. 32 Her hand divine prediction holds, The word of truth futurity unfolds. 1820 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily II. i. 21 His pretended skill in astrology and predictions of the fall of the Byzantine empire. 1861 Nat. Rev. Oct. 430 An author who evidently identifies prophecy with prediction. 1897 Daily News 19 Feb. 5/2 It entirely falsifies the predictions as to the ‘incalculableness’ of the female vote. 1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 85 On the basis of predictions made by human astronomers, the tide-predicting machine has been provided with 37 miniature suns and moons. 1980 I. Murdoch Nuns & Soldiers ii. 98 He..obliged the doctor's prediction by dying on Christmas Eve. 2004 New Yorker 30 Aug. 75/1 Some people shun pregame predictions, or best-ever lists. †b. A portent or omen. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] foretokenc888 tokeningc888 beaconc950 token971 handsela1200 boding1297 wonder1297 bodec1374 signa1387 foreboding1387 prenostica1393 prognosticc1425 prophetc1430 prognostication?a1439 ostentationa1450 prenostication?a1450 prodigy?a1450 augurationc1450 preparative1460 prenosticate?a1475 prenosticative?a1475 prodige1482 prenosticature1490 tokener1513 weird1513 show token1535 luck1538 prognosticate1541 preamble1548 proffer1548 presagition?c1550 foreshower1555 presage1560 portent1562 ostent1570 presagie1581 omen1582 presagement1586 luck sign1587 augury1588 prognosticon1588 forerunner1589 presager1591 halfner1594 spae1596 abode1598 oss1600 assign1601 augur1603 bodement1613 predictiona1616 prognosticala1618 bespeaker1624 portender1635 pre-indicant1659 foreshadow1834 boder1846 prognosticant1880 sky sign1880 a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 28 Yet Cæsar shall go forth: for these Predictions Are to the world in generall, as to Cæsar. View more context for this quotation †2. A previously made statement or assertion. Cf. predicted adj. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 38 I hope it shall not be said..that you can accuse his predictions, as erroneous, who never falsified his word with you. Compounds General attributive. prediction paradox n. ΚΠ 1951 Jrnl. Politics 13 86 We may be caught up in a strange paradox, the prediction paradox. Prediction, for us, is claimed to be both hazardous and harmful... But eventually we must predict, if we are to pretend to understand. 1952 Mind 61 265 I hope Mr. O'Connor will not mind my giving his paradox the new and somewhat more appropriate name of ‘the prediction paradox’. 2004 R. Sorensen in A. R. Mele & P. Rawling Oxf. Handbk. Rationality xiv. 267 The ‘prediction paradox’ was in discussion at Princeton University shortly after the war (at least among Kurt Gödel and his students). prediction study n. ΚΠ 1933 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 38 754 Prediction studies in the results of child guidance... Data are secured from case records and follow-up visits. 2002 Jrnl. Speech, Lang., & Hearing Res. (Nexis) 45 1142 In our prediction study..we found that the best kindergarten indicator of subsequent reading achievement was a measure of letter identification. prediction table n. ΚΠ 1885 Science Feb. 174/1 We find no changes in the adopted astronomical constants, nor have any new prediction-tables been substituted for those which have now been employed for many years. 1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. v. 70 Is it possible to work out a grand prediction table showing what treatment each individual should have? 2003 Times (Nexis) 13 Oct. 23 Most entertaining is the prediction table. Hull City fans will be pleased to see that on Friday it estimated they will finish top of the third division. prediction value n. ΚΠ 1933 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 19 1022 Where the Manerkonic section is relatively low, it means that for each M-region there is a wide range of offspring for each given prediction-value, and that more interacting genes..are involved. 1961 J. B. Wilson Reason & Morals iii. 144 Many scientists now use the prediction-value of scientific statements as virtually the only test of their truth. 2001 Internat. Jrnl. Clothing Sci. & Technol. (Nexis) 13 322 Network learning aims to reduce the delta between the target value and the prediction value. Derivatives preˈdictional adj. of, relating to, or of the nature of prediction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [adjective] prognostical?a1450 prognostica1500 foreguessing1548 prognosticable1562 prophetical1567 prospective1581 prophetica1616 predictive1637 foretellinga1640 predictory1641 forespeaking1650 predictionala1661 prognosticatory1693 prognosticative1813 proleptic1858 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Oxf. 329 I conceive it properly to intend the contests betwixt Scholars and Scholars, which were observed predictional, as if their animosities were the Index of the Volume of the Land. 1923 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 86 541 The two aspects under which one may regard the calculus of correlations, namely, its purely predictional or descriptive aspect and the interpretative aspect. 1990 Statist. Sci. 5 286/1 I shall refer to the interpretational and predictional flexibility offered by the Bayesian paradigm to the scientists in making inferential assessments based on experimented evidence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). predictionv. Brit. /prᵻˈdɪkʃn/, U.S. /priˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/, /prəˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prediction n. Etymology: < prediction n. Compare earlier predict v. rare. transitive. To prophesy, foretell; = predict v. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > predict, foretell [verb (transitive)] fore-sayc900 bodeOE before-sayOE before-tella1382 foretella1400 prognostica1400 tella1400 prenosticate?a1475 prenostic1477 prognosticatec1487 forespeak1489 prognostify1495 foreshow1561 prenunce1563 presage1569 boden1573 forewarn1582 predict1590 forehalsen1594 foresignify1597 prognosticon1602 predivine1607 forespell1611 predicate1623 prenuntiate1623 preadmonish1644 forebode1664 prediction1665 prenotea1711 bespeak1721 pre-announce1793 prophesize1848 to call for ——1895 pick1909 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 30 What this deep Soothsayer prediction'd before in jest, he now cals for in earnest. 1956 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 14 June 19/5 Sen. Mundt..predictioned Thursday swift approval by Congress of a bill to plug what he termed ‘the great hole shot into our internal security’ by the Supreme Court. 2002 Futures (Nexis) 31 38 Many traders are correct in predictioning the ultimate market direction, but they just can't sustain the drawdown involved in most futures trades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1561v.1665
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