predict
part of speech
verb (predict, predicts, predicted, predicting)
meaning for a pupil
1) To predict is to say what you think will happen in the future, before it happens. tree →
2) In science, to say what you expect the result of a test to be, using what you already know. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in science investigations: "Predict what will happen, then test it" — a prediction is checked against the results. In reading: predict what happens next in the story. In maths: predict the next number in a pattern. Weather forecasters predict the weather.
examples
- I predict that the ice will melt in ten minutes. tree →
- Predict what will happen next in the story. tree →
- Can you predict the next number: 2, 4, 6, ...? tree →
- The weather forecast predicts rain tomorrow. tree →
- Nobody predicted that our team would win. tree →
- We predicted the heavy ball would fall faster, but they landed together. tree →
- Scientists predict where hurricanes will go. tree →
- It had been predicted that a certain baby princess would begin flying about the world as soon as she was fifteen. tree →
note
Noun: prediction; adjective: predictable. A prediction is a sensible guess using evidence, not just any wild guess. A prediction can be wrong; that is fine in science.
In the corpora
- Phone keyboards and chatbots predict which words are most likely to come next.
- A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.
- Weather forecasts use computer models and AI to make good guesses, but weather is hard to predict, so forecasts are not promises.
- You cannot tickle yourself because your brain predicts the feeling of your own fingers and makes it weaker; tickling needs surprise.
- You can predict before reading, from the title, the cover and the pictures.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «predict» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.