What's the difference between forecast and prospect?
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.
Prospect
Definition:
(v.) That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
(v.) Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
(v.) A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
(v.) Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
(v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.
(v.) That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.
(v. t.) To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.
(v. i.) To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(3) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(4) 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.
(5) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(6) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
(7) A prospective randomized trial was conducted at Srinagarind and Khon Kaen hospitals.
(8) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(9) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
(10) A prospective randomized trial involving 64 patients with bleeding peptic ulcers was performed to assess the efficacy of two modalities of injection therapy.
(11) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(12) A 4-year prospective study was carried out on 53 chronically mentally ill patients living in a differentiated complementary residential complex.
(13) We are now conducting prospective clinical trials with one service using the algorithm and the others acting as the control group.
(14) Thirty-seven patients with retinoblastoma were evaluated prospectively by clinical examination, lumbar puncture, and CT.
(15) Two hundred eleven adult emergency hand patients were prospectively tested over a 1-year period for drug and alcohol use.
(16) In the first of two phases of this study, we established criteria for a prospective screening study.
(17) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(18) In an open, prospectively randomised, parallel group study, 124 patients with a history of constipation for more than three weeks were treated with either 15 ml bd of lactulose (increasing to 60 ml daily if necessary) or one sachet bd of ispaghula.
(19) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(20) The results obtained in a pilot study (42 patients with 74 lesions), a multicenter trial (254 patients with 553 lesions) and a prospective study still outstanding (29 patients with 38 lesions) allow to consider this system as suitable for clinical application.