What's the difference between foretell and predicate?

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.

Predicate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
  • (v. t.) To found; to base.
  • (v. i.) To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
  • (v. t.) That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.
  • (v. t.) The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
  • (a.) Predicated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His proposals are therefore predicated on a cut in potential income for EU migrants being sufficient to slow the numbers of poorer EU migrants coming to the UK.
  • (2) Clinical evaluation and management should be predicated upon pathophysiologic considerations, with examination technique and extent individualized for each case.
  • (3) Such an overall approach, here developed from the model of carrageenin-induced inflammation, also predicates that lysosomal enzymes, lipid peroxide and proamidase (related, respectively, to the inflammatory response in a narrow sense, to tissue damage and to tissue repair) are three basic parameters required when studying inflammatory processes.
  • (4) Interpretation of plasma concentration data during encainide therapy is predicated on an understanding of the role of active metabolites during treatment.
  • (5) Their use must be predicated by a differentiation of which arterial segments are hemodynamically involved, yet this determination may not be possible even after extensive noninvasive and invasive investigation.
  • (6) This level of diagnostic skills is predicated upon the ability to make a judgment on the basis of inherently ill-defined and insufficient data or, in other words, upon the ability to use rules and procedures of clinical inference.
  • (7) Immunologic mechanisms involved in tumor cell destruction are predicated principally on in vitro procedures, but the relevancy of these experimental observations to the actual events in vivo remains unclear and unresolved.
  • (8) Therefore, although impaired breathing may complicate swallowing dysfunction and vice versa, it does not appear that one can be predicated from the other.
  • (9) Appropriate changes in public health policy need not be predicated on results from still further studies.
  • (10) Since my correspondent refused to be named, I felt there was little to be gained from meeting him as my deservedly award-winning non-fiction had always been predicated on full disclosure.
  • (11) Although chest radiology is the first imaging option in evaluating patients for pulmonary manifestations of drug toxicity, the limitations of the pattern approach often predicate the use of other imaging techniques in addition to clinical and laboratory evaluation.
  • (12) These studies were predicated on observations that subjects who were more resistant to SMS had higher plasma AVP after severe nausea than subjects with lower resistances.
  • (13) The present discussion suggests an alternative explanation making reference to text-level representations, and particularly to the lexicalization of predicates.
  • (14) Their starting predicate – that the old ways of traditional media are inefficient and scream to be changed – is one reason why Google has fundamentally misread the reaction of publishers and authors to its quest to digitise the 20m or so books ever published.
  • (15) Most of the research on the regulation of immune responses has been predicated on the assumption that such regulation is accomplished by the interacting components of the immune system itself, e.g.
  • (16) Reliance on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of the thyroid as the key determinant whether to observe only or proceed surgically is predicated on achieving a minimal false-negative error rate (the incidence of malignant disease in nodules diagnosed benign by means of FNA).
  • (17) "Ninety-nine per cent of decisions are predicated on feelings – instinctive, emotional, fears, conflicts, unresolved childhood problems.
  • (18) Furthermore, equivalency and superiority of antigingivitis agents or devices should be predicated, at least in part, on their ability to prevent the onset of periodontitis.
  • (19) The assay is predicated on the ability of immobilized monoclonal antibody to distinguish glycated albumin from all other plasma proteins, followed by detection and quantitation of the bound glycoalbumin with an enzyme-conjugated second antibody directed against human albumin.
  • (20) It was a voice that was predicated on inclusion and difference, multiple perspectives not a single dominant view.