What's the difference between foreteller and presager?

Foreteller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who predicts.

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.

Presager


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.

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.

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