forecast

• vt. 予測; 予言
• n. 予測する；予測する；予想する
• vi. 予測する；予測を立てる

fore-, 前に. cast, 投影する.天気予報で使われる。

forecast (v.)

late 14c., "to scheme," from fore- "before" + casten in the sense of "contrive, plan, prepare" (late 14c.; see cast (v.)). Meaning "predict events" first attested late 15c. (cast (v.) "to perceive, notice" is from late 14c.). Related: Forecasting.

Whether we are to say forecast or forecasted in the past tense & participle depends on whether we regard the verb or the noun as the original from which the other is formed; ... The verb is in fact recorded 150 years earlier than the noun, & we may therefore thankfully rid ourselves of the ugly forecasted; it may be hoped that we should do so even if history were against us, but this time it is kind. [Fowler, 1926]

forecast (n.)

early 15c., "forethought, prudence," probably from forecast (v.). Meaning "conjectured estimate of a future course" is from 1670s. A Middle English word for weather forecasting was aeromancy.

1. The weather forecast is for showers and overcast skies.

天気予報では曇りとにわか雨が降っている。

2.Our forecast for 1990 was on the right lines.

1990年に関する私たちの予測はほぼ正しい。

3.Many traders forecast a continuation of the market 's recent bearish trend.

多くの取引先が最近の市場の下落傾向が続くと予測している。

4.There was considerable scepticism about the Chancellor 's forecast of a booming economy.

財務大臣の経済が急速に発展するとの予測に疑問を示す人がかなり多い。

5.The study also forecast an explosion in the diet soft-drink market.

この研究では、低糖質ソフトドリンク市場が急速に成長すると予測している。