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Foresee vs. Forecast — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Foresee and Forecast

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Foresee

To imagine or know as a probable occurrence; anticipate or predict
Foresaw economic decline.
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Forecast

Predict or estimate (a future event or trend)
Coal consumption in Europe is forecast to increase
Rain is forecast for Scotland
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Foresee

To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict.
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Forecast

A calculation or estimate of future events, especially coming weather or a financial trend.
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Foresee

(obsolete) To provide.
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Forecast

To estimate or predict in advance, especially to predict (weather conditions) by analysis of meteorological data.
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Foresee

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
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Forecast

To serve as an advance indication of; foreshadow
Price increases that forecast inflation.
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Foresee

To provide.
Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
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Forecast

A prediction, as of coming events or conditions
The weather forecast stated that it would rain.
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Foresee

To have or exercise foresight.
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Forecast

To estimate how something will be in the future.
To forecast the weather, or a storm
To forecast a rise in prices
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Foresee

Realize beforehand
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Forecast

To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.
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Foresee

Picture to oneself; imagine possible;
I cannot envision him as President
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Forecast

(obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
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Foresee

Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
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Forecast

An estimation of a future condition.
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Forecast

A prediction of the weather.
What's the forecast for tomorrow?
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Forecast

(betting) exacta
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Forecast

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds.
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Forecast

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.
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Forecast

To contrive or plan beforehand.
If it happen as I did forecast.
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Forecast

Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves.
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Forecast

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.
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Forecast

A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
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Forecast

Predict in advance
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Forecast

Judge to be probable
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Forecast

Indicate by signs;
These signs bode bad news
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