What's the difference between foretold and predicted?
Foretold
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Foretell
Example Sentences:
(1) Events in Kaga-Bandoro were not only foretold but could have been prevented.
(2) When the UN declared famine in Somalia in July last year, it was a disaster foretold as there had been plenty of warnings in the lead-up to the crisis.
(3) Judgment day failed to materialise again on 5 April 1761, as foretold by William Bell of London.
(4) Examination of secular trends suggests that the high cancer mortality rates of the 1980s could have been foretold by the excessive rates in the 1930s in Louisiana.
(5) In one of the cases the high content of the factor foretold the disease development.
(6) But it didn’t take long for Stan to see that Maline’s death foretold his own.
(7) But their arrival had been foretold when the city's tolerant social mix was ripped apart in the first years after George W Bush's mission was accomplished.
(8) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(9) The future of the euro itself was, one headline declared, "a chronicle of a death foretold".
(10) The sale was foretold in the accounts for the year to March 2011, which warned the business might have to be sold at a price that would not be sufficient to repay all the preference shareholder debt.
(11) That sense of frustration came through clearly in the crisis in east Africa, where the early warning systems foretold drought – the worst in some areas for 60 years – but the international response was tardy.
(12) EDF Actionnariat salarié (EAS) said in a statement that the interests of EDF are gravely threatened by the Hinkley Point project, which it calls “a financial catastrophy foretold” in which EDF has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
(13) Unlike Hazel Blears and Jacqui Smith, whose departures were foretold after their expenses claims were revealed, Purnell was not thought to be in danger over his claims.
(14) 'One second I'm a Koons, then suddenly the Koons is me' This collaboration with Jeff Koons was foretold in Lady Gaga's recent single, Applause, and true to her word, she has quite literally become a Koons.
(15) There can be no doubt that Michel's emails accurately and in detail described meetings the secretary of state had had, and accurately foretold what the secretary of state was going to do.
(16) Naturally there are limits to what can be foretold, because so much would depend on the outcome of London-Edinburgh negotiation.
(17) Intra-operative esophageal electromanometry (IEM), a method foretold by the authors since 1972, is indicated in the course interventions for functional esophageal disease.
(18) The image of Guzmán which ricocheted around the world – a shackled, dazed figure in a filthy T-shirt – may have suggested a spent force and a fall foretold.
(19) The 1984 film The Terminator foretold of an epic battle between man and machine, each striving for dominance.
(20) That we are not yet at that stage which was foretold by our fathers when they created this organisation."
Predicted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Predict
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(3) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
(4) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(5) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
(6) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(7) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(8) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(9) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
(10) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(13) 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.
(14) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
(15) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(16) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
(17) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(18) Correlations and some clinically relevant comparisons suggested that the MMPI 168 predicted the standard MMPI with a high degree of accuracy.
(19) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(20) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.