5 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Forecast \Fore*cast"\, verb (used without an object) To contrive or plan beforehand.
If it happen as I did forecast. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Forecast \Fore"cast\, noun Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves. --Addison.
2. A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation; as, the weather forecast.
His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp. --Prescott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Forecast \Fore*cast"\, verb (used with an object)
1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. --Dan. xi. 24.
2. To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for; as, to forecast the weather; to forecast prices.
It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences. --L'Estrange.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
forecast
noun
1: a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop [syn: {prognosis}]verb
1: predict in advance [syn: {calculate}] 2: judge to be probable [syn: {calculate}, {estimate}, {reckon}, {count on}, {figure}] 3: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {predict}]From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "forecast": accounting, actuarial prediction, adumbrate, analysis, anticipate, anticipation, apocalypse, arrange, augur, augury, automatic electronic navigation, braking, calculate, calculation, cast, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, computation, concert, conclude, conjecture, contemplation, contrive, coordination, cut out, design, devise, discretion, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, envisagement, envisionment, fact distribution, farseeingness, farsightedness, figure, forebode, foreboding, forecasting, forecasts, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreknown, foresee, foreseeing, foreseen, foreshowing, foreshown, foresight, foresightedness, foretell, foretelling, foretold, forewarn, forewarning, fortune-tell, frame, gather, guess, guesswork, hariolate, improbability, infer, inspection, intend, lay plans, longsightedness, looking ahead, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a projection, make a prophecy, make arrangements, manipulation, methodize, nonlinear calibrations, omen, organize, output measurement, plan, plan ahead, portend, prearrange, predict, predicted, prediction, prefiguration, prefigure, prefigurement, prefiguring, preparation, prepublication, presage, presaged, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, preview, prevision, probability, processing, prognosis, prognosticate, prognostication, program, project, promise, prophecy, prophesied, prophesy, prophesying, prospect, prospection, prospectus, providence, provision, prudence, rationalize, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, readiness, record keeping, sagacity, schedule, schematize, set up, shape, soothsay, speculate, speculation, statistical prediction, steering, supersonic flow detection, surmise, systematize, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate, vaticination, weird, work out, work up