(n.) One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
(n.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(2) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
(3) "Consumers are beginning to realise that this technology isn't an outlandish, futurist concept coming to life from The Jetsons but in fact can be used efficiently and effectively to solve everyday problems," says Alex Hawkinson, CEO of home automation company SmartThings.
(4) She's a symbol of revolt, and freedom, and hope … a futuristic Joan of Arc."
(5) Until I can strap myself to a big drone like some sort of hipster Icarus, the disappointed futurist thinks, I will wobble about on a two-wheeled board and pretend it is not in contact with the ground.
(6) Also, Doc Brown's inventions changed 1985 and made it much more futuristic when Marty finally got back.
(7) "The ideal city is not one with gated communities, security cameras, a futuristic scene from Blade Runner , dark and dramatic, with profound unhappiness … We need to at least build a city where happiness is possible and where public space is really for everybody."
(8) I'm not a futurist kind of person, but I would expect over time that it's just going to be real common."
(9) *** I took off my futuristic yellow pants and my Rush club shirt and stepped into the shower.
(10) Unfathomable, futuristic madness: that's what made me want to visit Japan.
(11) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
(12) This is the world of titanium or cobalt-chromium joint designs, bone screws and plates, orthotic limbs, supports and wheelchairs, and futuristic ideas such as miniature video cameras for artificial eyes.
(13) I had no idea what I was looking at: the one thing I did know was that this unfathomable futuristic madness was precisely the sort of thing I'd come to Japan to see.
(14) A futuristic sci-fi apparently: "An epic human story, set in a futuristic world without humanity."
(15) They don't align themselves with the thinkers, they align themselves with marketing, advertising, futurist crowd who are interested in ideas for the sake of ideas.
(16) I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city.
(17) With a hint of Tom Cruise in Minority Report, this instinctive, futuristic control system allows users to tailor their screen (even the size of the keyboard) and move from function to function effortlessly and with style.
(18) Some old, some current, and some futuristic techniques, including a few now operative but largely experimental, are mentioned, as is a concluding opinion of the minimum clinical routine providing the "best" information of the edema state.
(19) Those long enough in the tooth will remember that the Standard's former owner, Associated Newspapers , made a financially disastrous foray into TV back in the mid-1990s with the launch and closure of Channel One, a cable station it then futuristically billed as its "electronic newspaper" for the capital.
(20) In 2001 the retro-futurist Discovery revived appreciation for the kind of glossy soft-rock and sentimental 80s pop that most bands deemed too cheesy. "
Predict
Definition:
(v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
(n.) A prediction.
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%.