The difference between Forebode and Predict
When used as nouns, forebode means prognostication, whereas predict means a prediction.
When used as verbs, forebode means to predict a future event, whereas predict means to make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning.
check bellow for the other definitions of Forebode and Predict
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Forebode as a verb:
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
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Forebode as a verb:
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
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Forebode as a noun (obsolete):
prognostication; presage
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Predict as a verb (transitive):
To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
Examples:
"'2000, w J.K. Rowling, ''w Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', xiii."
"'2012, w Jeremy Bernstein, "[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2012/2/a-palette-of-particles A Palette of Particles]" in ''w American Scientist'', Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146"
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Predict as a verb (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.):
To imply.
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Predict as a verb (intransitive):
To make predictions.
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Predict as a verb (transitive, military, rare):
To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
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Predict as a noun (obsolete):
A prediction.