0 past simple and past participle of predict
1 to say that an event or action will happen in the future, especially as a result of knowledge or experience:
It's still not possible to accurately predict the occurrence of earthquakes.
[ + that ] Who could have predicted that within ten years he'd be in charge of the whole company?
[ + to infinitive ] The hurricane is predicted to reach the coast tomorrow morning.
[ + question word ] No one can predict when the disease will strike again.
We can predict changes in climate with a surprising degree of accuracy.
The papers are predicting that the prime minister will call an election in the spring.
It was predicted that a comet would collide with one of the planets.
This is as might be expected physically, presumably foretelling the onset of a higher mode as predicted by the airfoil model.
Learners of different language backgrounds are thus predicted to follow different developmental paths.
The technical efficiency scores rely on the value of the unobservable distance function predicted.
