What's the difference between forecast and forward?

Forecast


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
  • (v. t.) To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.
  • (v. i.) To contrive or plan beforehand.
  • (n.) Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
  • (n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
  • (2) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
  • (3) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
  • (4) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
  • (5) The Met Office has had to revise its forecast on previous occasions.
  • (6) The public finance forecasts are linked to those growth predictions, since stronger growth means healthier tax receipts and lower spending on unemployment benefit and other welfare measures.
  • (7) Unemployment is forecast to rise to 8.3% in 2013, against a backdrop of 0.9% growth.
  • (8) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
  • (9) The ONS said it was possible that these one-off items and a rise in tax receipts in January could bring the overall debt figure within the OBR's £80.5bn forecast.
  • (10) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
  • (11) An explanation of this in terms of terrestrial snail (intermediate host) populations and a suggestion for the possible use of these data in developing a predictive model for forecasting lungworm levels for use in in bighorn sheep management are given.
  • (12) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
  • (13) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
  • (14) Dark Sky , for example, is a Kickstarter-funded iOS app that provides weather forecasting depending on your exact location.
  • (15) Updated at 11.51am BST 11.19am BST Germany revises GDP forecasts Germany's Bild newspaper reports that the Berlin government is raising its forecast for economic growth this year, to +0.8% of GDP, from +0.7%.
  • (16) ran one forecast in full, a none- too-subtle broadside at his editors.
  • (17) The weather forecast in Warsaw is for some showers on Wednesday, though Roy Hodgson has expressed concern over the time it will take to repair the surface, which was relaid only last week at a cost of £115,000 and was criticised after last Friday's friendly against South Africa.
  • (18) It forecasts the pressure on forests will increase as world population grows by more than 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years.
  • (19) Whether the incidentally reported increase in multiword responses in some normal elderly forecasts an approaching dementia needs further research.
  • (20) The paper is forecasting that bulks will be reduced to about 72,000 copies per day on average and daily paid-for circulation will be up to about 150,000.

Forward


Definition:

  • (n.) An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
  • (adv.) Alt. of Forwards
  • (a.) Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.
  • (a.) Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty.
  • (a.) Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years.
  • (a.) Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.
  • (v. t.) To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.
  • (v. t.) To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
  • (2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (3) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
  • (5) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
  • (6) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
  • (7) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (8) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
  • (9) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
  • (10) We put forward the hypothesis that the agglutinability in acriflavine, together with the PAGE profile type II, may be associated with particular structures responsible for virulence.
  • (11) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (12) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
  • (13) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
  • (14) The M(r) values for all fractions and the relative electrophoretic mobility in the forward direction were determined.
  • (15) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (16) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
  • (17) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
  • (18) By using increased feed-forward gain in a sampled-data control model we simulated the pattern of macrosaccadic oscillation.
  • (19) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
  • (20) This workshop highlighted the progress that has been made since 1909, the year that Ignatowski put forward that animal proteins in the diet can induce atherosclerosis in rabbits.