What's the difference between prediction and prophecy?

Prediction


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

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%.

Prophecy


Definition:

  • (n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
  • (n.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.
  • (n.) Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) JGB: I think science fiction always has had a predictive role, and many of its prophecies have come true.
  • (2) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
  • (3) Intrusive thoughts – especially anxious ones about erectile capacity – very often become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • (4) But the most worrying problem with rank and yank is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • (5) Lakota leader Crazy Horse spoke of his vision of that prophecy with the following words: Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world.
  • (6) To fulfil Wenger’s prophecy about Walcott’s evolution it would make sense for him to get a clutch of games to develop his rhythm.
  • (7) Tobin wrote: "Despite the dire science-fiction prophecies that accompany every period of high unemployment, revival of aggregate demand has always created jobs in numbers vastly beyond the imagination of the pessimists … Structural labour market policies can make only marginal improvements."
  • (8) This behavior results in a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
  • (9) West’s novels have an astonishing record of prophecy.
  • (10) Her prophecy came true, with her grandson coming to London as a research fellow at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts) in 1974.
  • (11) They were printed cheaply on a single side of paper, which contained lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations, as well as news, prophecy, political or religious messages, satire and comedy.
  • (12) If one child does not come to school that is too high a price to pay ... and then in educational terms it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
  • (13) As with all prophecies of doom, or indeed those of an impending economic boom, we should treat such visions with caution.
  • (14) The message that even if you don’t like Putin, there is no alternative, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the state machine that ensures no opposition forces can ever get too much oxygen.
  • (15) One called A Prophecy for 1973 imagines a future utopia without poverty and hunger, which seems as distant today as in 1873 when it was probably composed.
  • (16) But DeMoro insisted he had a meaningful chance of becoming president and dismissed the concerns as a “self-fulfilling prophecy” by Democratic party leaders.
  • (17) This report deals with the influence of the self-fulfilling prophecy on dental prophylaxis.
  • (18) In order for an awake intubation to be successful, it is absolutely essential that the patient be properly prepared; otherwise, the anesthesiologist will simply fulfill a self-defeating prophecy.
  • (19) This prophecy may have seemed far-fetched when first published in 1903, but it was to prove more and more compelling as the century advanced.
  • (20) Whatever its origins, the Bugarach prophecy has implanted itself in France's collective consciousness.