Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.
- noun Care in providing for the future.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
- noun Provident care; prudence in guarding against evil; precaution.
- noun In surveying, a forward sight or reading of a leveling-staff; any bearing taken by a compass forward.
- noun The sight on the muzzle of a gun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
- noun Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
- noun (Surv.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
- noun (Gun.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under
Fore , a.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
- noun the
front sight on arifle or similar weapon - noun surveying a
bearing taken forwards towards a new object
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
- noun providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
Etymologies
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Examples
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From what I hear tell, the foresight is a side effect of the genetic selection and enhancement process that was used when my parents decided to have a child.
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From what I hear tell, the foresight is a side effect of the genetic selection and enhancement process that was used when my parents decided to have a child.
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The only notable place this foresight is applied in the U.S., as I see it, is for our formidable war machine.
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Kotane's clear insight into the problems of our movement developed in him what we call a foresight; almost a premonition.
Moses Kotane 1978
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"That's what I call foresight!" cried the magistrate laughing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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"That's what I call foresight!" cried the magistrate laughing.
In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867
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"That's what I call foresight!" cried the magistrate laughing.
In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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In the case of cellular machinery (among other things), we are looking at something and thinking about whether the same kind of "foresight" is required to produce the effect.
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The reason it doesn't appear to exhibit "foresight" is because we observe the intermediate candidates from the generator, before they are filtered.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Odd that people should eulogise hindsight, when principled foresight is a far more wonderful thing.
So just what did we go into politics for then, Danny Alexander? Marina Hyde 2010
dailyword commented on the word foresight
Elrond had the gift of this when looking into Arwen's future.
June 10, 2012