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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express an outcome in advance |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, be afraid, call, call it, conclude, conjecture, croak, crystal-ball divine, envision, figure, figure out, forebode, forecast, foresee, forespeak, foretell, gather, guess, have a hunch, hazard a guess, infer, judge, make book, omen, portend, presage, presume, prognosticate, prophesy, psych out, read, see coming, see handwriting on wall, size up, soothsay, suppose, surmise, telegraph, think, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | budget |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan money or action |
| Synonyms: | allocate, apportion, calculate, compute, cost, estimate, predict, ration |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate, consider |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, approximate, augur, forecast, foretell, guess, judge, make rough guess, place, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, put, reckon, regard, think, vaticinate |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
| Main Entry: | divine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prophesy |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, apprehend, conjecture, deduce, discern, forebode, forefeel, foreknow, foresee, foretell, go out on a limb, guess, infer, intuit, perceive, predict, previse, prognosticate, see, see in the cards, suppose, surmise, suspect, take a shot, take a stab, understand, visualize |
| Main Entry: | envisage/envision |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | picture in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, behold, conceive, conceptualize, contemplate, externalize, fancy, feature, foresee, form mental picture of, grasp, have a picture of, image, imagine, look upon, materialize, objectify, predict, realize, regard, see, survey, think up, view, view in mind's eye, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, calculate roughly, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, form opinion, gauge, guess, guesstimate, judge, look into, look upon, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, run over, scheme, set a figure, size up, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, think through |
| Notes: | estimate implies a calculation has been performed and it is on that basis that a judgment or valuation is being made, while estimation implies that an on-the-spot evaluation is being performed and that it is an opinion based on that evaluation; an estimate conveys a more reasoned or impersonal judgment than an estimation |
| Main Entry: | expect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe strongly; anticipate |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, assume, await, bargain for, bargain on, be afraid, calculate, conjecture, contemplate, count on, divine, envisage, feel, figure, forecast, foreknow, foresee, gather, hope, hope for, imagine, in the cards, look, look ahead to, look for, look forward to, predict, presume, presuppose, reckon, see coming, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, think, trust, understand, wait for, watch for |
| Main Entry: | extrapolate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infer |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, assume, conclude, deduce, envision, figure, foresee, foretell, guess, hypothesize, make an educated guess, predict, project, see ahead, theorize |
| Main Entry: | foreshadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, be in the wind, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, telegraph |
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