What's the difference between doomsayer and prediction?

Doomsayer


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 6.15pm BST Obama says the GOP doomsaying has proven hollow: Most Republicans have made a whole bunch of predictions that haven't come true.
  • (2) The drone from traffic on the parallel Quai des Celestins, higher up the river bank, suggests traffic there is moving along at a respectable pace – confounding those doomsayers who suggested the controversial scheme to pedestrianise two miles of city centre highway would bring neighbouring roads to a standstill.
  • (3) The unions came to Westminster today, like doomsayers waiting for the rest of the country to catch up.
  • (4) Draghi ridiculed the doomsayers predicting that hyperinflation would eventually result from QE, saying that hawks had repeatedly warned about inflation taking off each time the ECB had cut interest rates – yet inflation remained very low.
  • (5) Nor is it disintegrating, as the doomsayers love to repeat.
  • (6) Ferrari was hopeful about the potential to save the Great Barrier Reef, she said, despite the doomsaying about its prospects.
  • (7) After six years as editor of the red-top she delivered a passionate defence of tabloids while railing against industry doomsayers at the Cudlipp Lecture at the London College of Communication.
  • (8) Miliband will say that their success has proved how "doomsayers", from Oswald Moseley to the BNP, have completely misjudged Britain.
  • (9) He will say: "We've had our fair share of doomsayers in Britain over the years, from Oswald Moseley in the 1930s, to Enoch Powell in the 1960s, to Nick Griffin today, who said it wasn't possible for us to get along.
  • (10) Should any of this doomsaying concern us, particularly in a credit-crunched world?
  • (11) Yet there are still reasons to hope that 2017, like 2016, will not turn out as bad as the doomsayers predict.
  • (12) Focus DIY gave doomsayers more reason to be gloomy after it embarked on a vital restructuring to stave off its collapse.
  • (13) Defying all the doomsayers who said a vote to leave could prompt a recession, consumers carried on spending and businesses continued to expand .
  • (14) Nigeria has proved the doomsayers wrong before, but the odds are worsening.
  • (15) Right-wing conservatives like Jacob Rees-Mogg joined in, saying that because of the obsession of "the doomsayers of the quasi-religious Green movement" poor people "may die because they can't afford fuel".
  • (16) Those glum doomsayers, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu , defence chief Ehud Barak, and president Shimon Peres , are frantically ringing alarm bells like a trio of demented churchwardens.
  • (17) But, against the doomsayers, an almost supernatural peace and good will reigned.
  • (18) The long-awaited election in the continent’s biggest democracy, with 60 million potential voters, did not descend into the chaos or violence that the doomsayers had predicted, but it was hardly plain sailing.
  • (19) He said industry doomsayers were "misguided cynics".
  • (20) Edwards – a high profile City strategist renowned as a market doomsayer – said the scheme was artificially propping up the market and preventing prices correcting to affordable levels.

Prediction


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
  • (3) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
  • (4) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
  • (5) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (6) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (7) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
  • (8) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
  • (9) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (10) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
  • (11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
  • (12) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (13) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
  • (14) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
  • (15) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (16) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
  • (17) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
  • (18) Correlations and some clinically relevant comparisons suggested that the MMPI 168 predicted the standard MMPI with a high degree of accuracy.
  • (19) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (20) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.