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portend

VT เป็น ลาง  มีความหมาย  บอก เหตุ ล่วงหน้า  predict forecast pen-lang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PORTEND

v.t.[L. portendo; por; Eng. fore, and tendo, to stretch. ] To foreshow; to foretoken; to indicate something future by previous signs. A moist and cool summer portends a hard winter.

 

PORTENDED

pp. Foreshown; previously indicated by signs.

 

PORTENDING

ppr. Foreshowing.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PORTEND

Por *tend ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portended; p. pr. & vb. n.Portending. ] Etym: [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to stretch. See Position, Tend. ]

 

1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc. ) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.

 

2. To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel. " Pope.

 

Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

portend

por tend |pôrˈtend pɔrˈtɛnd | ▶verb [ with obj. ] be a sign or warning that (something, esp. something momentous or calamitous ) is likely to happen: the eclipses portend some major events. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin portendere, based on pro- ‘forth ’ + tendere ‘stretch. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

portend

por |tend |pɔːˈtɛnd | ▶verb [ with obj. ] be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous ) is likely to happen: the eclipses portend some major events. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin portendere, based on pro- ‘forth ’ + tendere ‘stretch ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

portend

portend verb the sight of a dead bird was believed to portend tragedy: presage, augur, foreshadow, foretell, prophesy; be a sign, warn, be an omen, indicate, herald, signal, bode, promise, threaten, signify, spell, denote; literary betoken, foretoken, forebode.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

portend

portend verb the sound of the death-watch beetle was thought to portend the death of someone in the house: presage, augur, foreshadow, foretell, prophesy; be a sign of, be a warning of, warn of, be an omen of, be an indication of, be a harbinger of; indicate, herald, signal, bode, announce, promise, threaten, point to, mean, signify, spell, denote; literary betoken, foretoken, forebode, harbinger.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

portend

por tend /pɔː r ténd /動詞 他動詞 ｟文 ｠〈物 事が 〉〈よくない状態 事態 〉の前触れとなる ; …を予告する .