What's the difference between forecast and presage?

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.

Presage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
  • (v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
  • (v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
  • (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
  • (v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accumulation of mesenchyme basally presages the formation of the nasal septum.
  • (2) At the weekend Clegg presaged some of the proposals in the Liberal Democrat package saying he wanted reform of the laws on public interest defence.
  • (3) Like all good Shakespearean tragedies, the Trump presidency is presaging its own collapse at the height of its glory.
  • (4) Reagan, after whom buildings, streets and even airports are widely named, would thus become America's Marcus Aurelius, the philosoper emperor of Rome whose death in AD 180 presaged its long, slow decline.
  • (5) The results suggest that manifesting once traditional sex-role characteristics for both adolescent boys and girls presages early onset and heavier adult cigarette smoking.
  • (6) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
  • (7) Fairbairn expressed alarm after the prime minister’s conference speech appeared to presage a hardline approach to Brexit and the home secretary, Amber Rudd, appeared to criticise firms employing a large proportion of foreign workers.
  • (8) drug abuse in Argentina, these results presage a significant increase in the delta agent's prevalence in the immediate future.
  • (9) The two cases are interpreted as presaging a divergence in the paths being taken by the various Scandinavian welfare states.
  • (10) The intervention, tacitly backed by the US, presaged severe, ongoing human rights abuses.
  • (11) They presage a bad prognosis and a rapid demise; the patients survive an average of four months.
  • (12) Both men will now be hoping that the relatively small fall in GDP of 0.2% does not presage a further fall in the first quarter of this year, which would denote the official return of recession and represent a blow in itself to economic confidence.
  • (13) Impaired glucose tolerance often presages the development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
  • (14) The election results were awful, but not so apocalyptic as to presage extinction.
  • (15) Osborne's statements in Manchester caused anger, said the source, but more for exaggerating the impact of green policies on energy bills than any presaging of policy reversals.
  • (16) STAI following THC presaged a poor analgesic response in this group.
  • (17) A study of the various characteristic features of the heart defect before operation, and of the operative findings, has allowed us to determine a certain number of factors which presage good immediate and long-term results.
  • (18) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
  • (19) It has been suggested that a low percentage of epithelial podocyte effacement (EPE) and a high degree of epithelial cell vacuolization (ECV) in nonsclerotic glomeruli presage FSGS, and that extensive epithelial cell vacuolization in biopsies clearly showing FSGS predicts a poor clinical outcome.
  • (20) The hypothesis that blockade of excitatory amino acid receptors will prevent neuronal death presages a new era in acute stroke treatment.