(v. i.) That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
(a.) Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come.
(a.) The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
(a.) A future tense.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(3) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(4) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(6) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
(7) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(8) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(9) The data support inclusion of these residues in future CS protein vaccines.
(10) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(11) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(12) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(13) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
(14) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
(15) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
(16) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
(17) The patient and ventilator work ratios, and the work of breathing quantify factors which may be directly useful to the clinician and to future systems to automate weaning.
(18) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(19) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
(20) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
Precognition
Definition:
(n.) Previous cognition.
(n.) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pursuit tracking task was carried out to investigate the effects of combinations of sine waves on the development of precognitive mode, which is defined as open-loop mode with little feedback.
(2) It was not surprising, therefore, that when Bem last year published the results of a series of nine experiments appearing to suggest that precognition – or the ability to "feel the future" – is real, the story received a great deal of coverage from mainstream science media around the world.
(3) Absorption correlated positively with dream recall, ability to dream on a chosen topic, reports of conflict resolution in dreams, creative ideas occurring in dreams, amount of color in dreams, pleasantness of dreams, bizarreness of dreams, flying dreams and precognitive dreams.
(4) Cypriot halloumi + Shed Seven + burlesque.” In the days approaching The Thick of It screening I smugly congratulated myself on my precognitive programming genius.
(5) On this basis a hypothesis is elaborated meaning that autistic people would have the instinctive precognition of the creatures of the same species fulfilled not by such creatures (imprinting), but by partial aspects of them, regarding sensory stimuli that they produce.
(6) Reporters of out-of-body experiences showed significantly greater belief in precognition, psi, spiritualism, and witchcraft than did nonreporters.
(7) Speed of behavior apparently limits certain intellectual components such as fluid intelligence and the important precognitive capacity of attention.
(8) Thus, precognition is a sort of psychic radar, warning an individual of impending danger; dreams are a safety valve for potentially psycholytic repressions; and faith is an important element in the healing process.
(9) His expertise, fittingly, is what can’t be seen – sound, yes, but also everything else that sound is to the human mind: the way we orient ourselves in relation to spaces, to time, to each other; the way we communicate when language fails; the way our ears know, precognitively, when the dark room has someone lurking in it or when a stranger will be kind.
(10) For subjects as a whole, the strongest correlates were the frequency of dreams which they believed to be precognitive and out-of-body dreams.