单词	prediction
释义	predictionpre‧dic‧tion /prɪˈdɪkʃən/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable, uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Despite their confident predictions, sales of the new car have not been very good. It's too early to make any predictions about the election results. One prediction is that 50% of households will have two microwaves. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A natural extension of the two approaches is to combine them and test both predictions at the same time. But Donald Rumsfeld's appointment as defence secretary makes those predictions look naive. Empirical support for the prediction of future violence is very small. Planning assumptions are predictions about the probable environments in which plans are expected to operate. Pundits' predictions of repossessions topping 80,000 during 1991 hit the headlines. This principle, then, makes certain general predictions about acquisition. What were the sources of these predictions? Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomething that someone predicts will happen► prediction a statement saying what you think will happen in the future: · Despite their confident predictions, sales of the new car have not been very good.make a prediction: · It's too early to make any predictions about the election results. ► forecast a public statement saying what is likely to happen with the weather or with the economic or political situation, based on special or technical knowledge: the weather forecast (=a statement in a newspaper, or on the TV or radio, saying what the weather will be like during the next few days): · According to the weather forecast, it's going to stay hot for the rest of the week.give/make a forecast: · It is impossible to give an accurate forecast of company sales 10 years from now. ► prophecy a statement that says something will happen, especially made by someone with religious or magical powers: prophecy of: · The old woman's prophecies of disaster were soon fulfilled.prophecy that: · Lij Yasu was never crowned, possibly because he believed a prophecy that if he became king he would die.· Amazingly, the manager's prophecy that the team would get into the first division seems to be coming true. ► prognosis formal the likely result of a process such as an illness or a series of events that has already started: · Well, doctor, what's the prognosis?· By the early 1990s the prognosis for Communism wasn't at all good. ► predicted showing what someone thinks will happen in the future: · More than a century after Marx, the predicted dissolution of capitalism has still not taken place.· There were several arrests for disorderly behaviour, but for the most part the much-predicted violence did not materialize. ► projected : projected figures/sales/profits/results the profits, sales etc that a business expects to achieve considering past and present performance: · Next year's projected sales are 5% higher than this year's.· The company's losses look likely to wipe out the projected profits on the ECR90 project. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs► make a prediction · It is far too early to make predictions about the outcome of the inquiry. ► confirm a prediction (=show that it was right)· They are now planning further tests to confirm their predictions. adjectives► accurate/correct · Jane's prediction proved to be accurate. ► a confident prediction (=one that you think is probably right)· The situation is so uncertain that it is hard to make a confident prediction. ► a dire/gloomy prediction (=saying that something bad will happen)· There have been some gloomy predictions about the economy recently. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► accurate · Another collective title, the Angry Young Men, was to prove in the long term more accurate as prediction than description.· Tarot is believed to be one of the most accurate forms of prediction.· Check it after the lesson to see how accurate your predictions were.· Such a model facilitates accurate predictions of the average change in charge radii for nuclei. ► dire · The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.· He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions.· When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.· He derived, so far as I could tell, not the slightest satisfaction from seeing his most dire predictions fulfilled. ► early · But it's a bit early to make predictions.· Pessimistic early predictions seem to be confirmed by more recent data.· On the television front, satellite had not swept the country to the extent indicated by early predictions. ► gloomy · Horror stories, complaints and gloomy predictions are plentiful. ► theoretical · These results confirmed the theoretical predictions and aroused great interest in FELs.· But if the fundamental variable is altered, so too are the theoretical predictions. VERB► confirm · Later work, including a recent ESRC- supported investigation by Sugden and Starmer, has tended to confirm these predictions.· And the trends of the past few decades seem to confirm that prediction.· These results confirmed the theoretical predictions and aroused great interest in FELs.· Studies carried out in Hull, did nothing to confirm this prediction.· That at least confirms their predictions of how the world is. ► lead · A high tide had led to predictions of one of the largest bores of the year.· This approach, although still somewhat restrictive has led to reasonable predictions of relaxation and retardation spectra.· This has led to predictions that a large number of new grammar schools may be created. ► make · In consequence, one might make two predictions.· If a Republican were in the White House, the Democrats would be making similar charges and predictions.· Euravia's history is altogether too brief for any outside to make positive predictions about its future.· Local forecasters are then expected to make their predictions from them.· Scholars compare to provide context, make classifications, test hypotheses, and make predictions.· It is also extremely difficult to make predictions about such babies in the first few weeks of life.· This property of amplification makes it impossible to make long-term predictions about evolution, as one can in astronomy.· Meteorologists use the data to make flood predictions, which are expected to be released later this month. ► provide · This theory builds upon transactions cost theory but, its proponents would argue, provides clearer predictions.· In this case relative factor rewards also provide a valid prediction of the intersectoral pattern of trade.· In one sense it is a simplification, but also it is a clarification which is intended to provide understanding and prediction.· Also, the approach has provided few concrete predictions or hypotheses that are subject to rigorous empirical measurement and testing.· More important, it may provide useful predictions.· The fact that relative factor endowments provide a valid prediction of the intersectoral pattern of trade was established in this chapter. ► test · A natural extension of the two approaches is to combine them and test both predictions at the same time.· To test these comparative static predictions, we carry out a similar exercise on the actual data.· Only since 1960 have we possessed the technology to test the prediction locally.· The models will then be tested by comparing their predictions with the behaviour of people making idealised decisions in the laboratory.· Sachs tested this prediction by presenting subjects with passages containing a target sentence in various positions. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► dire warning/prediction/forecast He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions. Take the current fascination with dire forecasts, for example. That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast. The dire warnings of world shortages have not come to pass. The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians. The most dire forecasts say rising mercury on Earth could bring about both devastating floods and droughts. When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice. Word family WORD FAMILYnounpredictionpredictability ≠ unpredictabilitypredictoradjectivepredictable ≠ unpredictablepredictiveverbpredictadverbpredictably ≠ unpredictably a statement about what you think is going to happen, or the act of making this statementprediction of predictions of a Republican victory The data can be used to make useful economic predictions.COLLOCATIONSverbsmake a prediction· It is far too early to make predictions about the outcome of the inquiry.confirm a prediction (=show that it was right)· They are now planning further tests to confirm their predictions.adjectivesaccurate/correct· Jane's prediction proved to be accurate.a confident prediction (=one that you think is probably right)· The situation is so uncertain that it is hard to make a confident prediction.a dire/gloomy prediction (=saying that something bad will happen)· There have been some gloomy predictions about the economy recently.
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