What's the difference between forecast and future?

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.

Future


Definition:

  • (v. i.) That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
  • (a.) Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come.
  • (a.) The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
  • (a.) A future tense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
  • (3) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (4) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (6) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
  • (7) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (8) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
  • (9) The data support inclusion of these residues in future CS protein vaccines.
  • (10) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (11) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (12) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (13) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
  • (14) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
  • (15) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
  • (16) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
  • (17) The patient and ventilator work ratios, and the work of breathing quantify factors which may be directly useful to the clinician and to future systems to automate weaning.
  • (18) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (19) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
  • (20) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.