predictor
Origin of predictor
Related Words for predictor
witch, seer, prognosticator, diviner, medium, sibyl, astrologer, forecaster, reader, wizard, bard, fortuneteller, soothsayer, oracle, augur, auspex, magus, clairvoyant, sorcerer, druidExamples from the Web for predictor
Contemporary Examples of predictor
Gladwell argues that the quality of the school is less a predictor of individual success than individual merit is.
Malcolm Gladwell In Five Minutes: What to Know to Pretend You’ve Read the New BookThomas Flynn
October 5, 2013
The past is not a predictor of the future and we will need to be ready for the challenges ahead.
Industry Trailblazer to Aspiring Women Pros: Stand Up and Be CountedDaily Beast Promotions
November 14, 2011
One predictor of violence within the marriage, however, is a disparity between husband and wife.
Another found them twice as likely to be born below normal weights—itself a predictor of problems later in life.
But we also found that the shape—the roundness—of the pelvic crest was a predictor of breast disease in the daughters.
Historical Examples of predictor
He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.
The LeaderWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins (AKA Murray Leinster)
But whether he has not been the cause of this poor man's death, as well as the predictor, may be very reasonably disputed.
The Bickerstaff-Partridge PapersJonathan Swift
And here we return again to take a new survey of him in the course of his public practice as a predictor.
Hooker indeed seemed to have done what no predictor of events should do; he fixed on the period of its accomplishment.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)Isaac Disraeli