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# predict

«predict» in Mova's school dictionary: **to say what you think will happen in the future, before…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#m1)

2) In science, to say what you expect the result of a test to be, using what you already know. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#x1)
- Predict what will happen next in the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#x2)
- Can you predict the next number: 2, 4, 6, ...? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#x3)
- The weather forecast predicts rain tomorrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#x4)
- Nobody predicted that our team would win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#x5)
- We predicted the heavy ball would fall faster, but they landed together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#x6)
- Scientists predict where hurricanes will go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#x7)
- It had been predicted that a certain baby princess would begin flying about the world as soon as she was fifteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/8/)
- [A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/7/)
- [Weather forecasts use computer models and AI to make good guesses, but weather is hard to predict, so forecasts are not promises.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/9/)
- [You cannot tickle yourself because your brain predicts the feeling of your own fingers and makes it weaker; tickling needs surprise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/14/)
- [You can predict before reading, from the title, the cover and the pictures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «predict» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/predict/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.