What's the difference between foretell and herald?

Foretell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
  • (v. i.) To utter predictions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1967, I indicated that the number of lawsuits involving malformed infants seemed to be increasing, not realizing that the increase was foretelling an epidemic.
  • (2) But if they do foretell of a golden child who will one day preside over a truly clean Fifa, then I can only think this saviour has yet to be even born.
  • (3) Changes occurring in both countries foretell a future wherein our health care systems may look very much alike.
  • (4) For if nothing burnishes authority like foretelling the future, nothing breaks the spell of command like responding to changing facts with denial.
  • (5) But, in office, Trump has proved to be a great deal friendlier to the titans of Wall Street and their interests than he suggested he would be as a candidate, although a close reading of his speeches foretells some of what is now happening.
  • (6) Bioclimatogrammes have been worked out for the various regions of the country to foretell the periods during which the microclimatic conditions in them favour the development of the preparasitic forms of gastrointestinal nematodes of sheep in the environment.
  • (7) And while national eyes are focused on what the byelection, triggered by the sudden death of the longtime MP Don Randall , will bode for the future of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, or foretell for the next general election, voters in the semi-rural electorate are much more parochial.
  • (8) However, if she declines our invitation, then perhaps her greatest gift is the ability to foretell her own failure.
  • (9) Its outcome is difficult to foretell, as the usual criteria for malignancy are unreliable in this neoplasm.
  • (10) Oral ulcerations have been said to foretell a severe systemic disease flare and the proposal that oral ulcers represent a mucosal vasculitis has been suggested to explain this hypothesis.
  • (11) Hypereosinophilia may foretell a more serious underlying condition such as bile duct carcinoma in some patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.
  • (12) Current experience indicates that negative biopsy after such combined therapy may be 85 per cent reliable in foretelling lesion outcome.
  • (13) Reward-related activity in area 7a probably results from an integration of the visual and limbic inputs to this region, such that visual information which foretells behaviourally important events is emphasized.
  • (14) The evidence that the mast cell can participate in each form of immunologic reaction--immediate, immune complex, and delayed- as a primary or secondary effector cell and the diversity of its products foretell an evolving recognition of its role in host defense and tissue injury.
  • (15) At the same time, foreign firms are becoming more active, foretelling greater competition in the United States for both market share and research resources.
  • (16) The results of this survey foretell a significant deficit of pathologists in community hospital and private laboratory practice within the next five years.
  • (17) The case may foretell increasing problems with protozoan infections in AIDS as the epidemic spreads to areas with endemic protozoan diseases.
  • (18) This loss of one cell-specific marker and gain of another is termed the "antigenic shift" phenomenon and appeared to foretell the emergence of a true second phenotype (the same in each of these cases, which could be termed "dedifferentiated" sarcomas).
  • (19) However, it is impossible to foretell simply from past menstrual history whether a woman will develop amenorrhea after oral contraceptive therapy.
  • (20) In conclusion, we look into the crystal ball to foretell the future on a retrospective basis.

Herald


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
  • (n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
  • (n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
  • (n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
  • (n.) Any messenger.
  • (v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since the first sections opened, the project has been heralded as a model example of urban redevelopment and the line has contributed to the gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower West Side.
  • (2) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
  • (3) He may be the herald of a changing morality, and even more, his art may become an instrument for such change.
  • (4) It has been established that the structure of depressive phases in sluggish simple schizophrenia includes specific psychopathological signs heralding defect formation and united by the notion "transitory syndrome".
  • (5) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
  • (6) Obama expressed a hope that the decision by Republican House speaker John Boehner to allow moderates in his party to vote with Democrats to end the shutdown may herald a new era of bi-partisan co-operation in the House of Representatives .
  • (7) Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart has reduced her stake in Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age newspapers, less than three weeks after she increased her investment in the group.
  • (8) Busulfan is not known to cause sideroblastic changes, so this was considered to herald a transformation into acute leukemia.
  • (9) The Audiant Bone Conductor has been heralded as an aid for use in conductive hearing loss; however, its possible use in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has also been proposed.
  • (10) Clinical presentation was most often heralded by symptoms and signs of hydrocephalus with focal neurological findings being a less prominent feature.
  • (11) The letters, bearing the prince's heraldic badge, were effective.
  • (12) If intraoperative stroke was heralded by permanent electroencephalographic changes, these were not related to the moment of cross-clamping.
  • (13) In Dublin, the general mood was summed up by the Evening Herald headline, referring to a slogan from an car advert featuring Henry: "It's Va Va Gloom".
  • (14) The Council of Mortgage Lenders, which devised the scheme with the HBF and the government, heralded the return of 95% deals, which it said would give a "welcome boost to housing market confidence".
  • (15) This has already been heralded as a “win” for the host nation and welcomed by the Australia’s Labor opposition.
  • (16) The transgenic rat therefore heralds an exciting new dimension in hypertension research.
  • (17) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
  • (18) News Limited is the Australian arm of the global company News Corporation and publishes more than 140 newspaper titles across the country including the major tabloid titles down the east coast, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald-Sun and the Courier-Mail as well as the national broadsheet the Australian.
  • (19) The former deputy editor of the Sunday Herald, David Milne, has been appointed online editor for the new site.
  • (20) The anticipated "big reveal" had been published in the New Zealand Herald several hours before the town hall extravaganza.