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What (who) is Anticipate - definition

BASIC EMOTION
Antizipation; Anticipatory; Thrilled; Anticipate; Anticipates; Anticipated; Anticipation (emotion)
  • ''Anticipation'' (1909) by [[Harrison Fisher]]

anticipate         
v. a.
1.
Go before, get the start of.
2.
Take up beforehand, consider in advance, meet or pay in advance.
3.
Foretaste, forestall, antedate, experience beforehand.
4.
Expect, forecast, foresee, look forward to, count upon, reckon upon, calculate upon, prepare one's self for.
anticipate         
¦ verb
1. be aware of and prepare for (a future event).
regard as probable.
look forward to.
2. act as a forerunner or precursor of.
Derivatives
anticipative adjective
anticipator noun
anticipatory adjective
Origin
C16: from L. anticipat-, anticipare, from ante- 'before' + capere 'take'.
anticipate         
(anticipates, anticipating, anticipated)
1.
If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
At the time we couldn't have anticipated the result of our campaigning...
It is anticipated that the equivalent of 192 full-time jobs will be lost...
Officials anticipate that rivalry between leaders of the various drug factions could erupt into full scale war.
= expect
VERB: V n, it be V-ed that, V that
2.
If you anticipate a question, request, or need, you do what is necessary or required before the question, request, or need occurs.
What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question...
VERB: V n
3.
If you anticipate something, you do it, think it, or say it before someone else does.
In the 50s, Rauschenberg anticipated the conceptual art movement of the 80s.
VERB: V n

Wikipedia

Anticipation

Anticipation is an emotion involving pleasure or anxiety in considering or awaiting an expected event. Anticipatory emotions include fear, anxiety, hope and trust. When the anticipated event fails to occur, it results in disappointment (for a positive event) or relief (for a negative one).

Examples of use of Anticipate
1. "We‘re trying to anticipate their next move, and they‘re trying to anticipate ours.
2. DUFFY÷ I would anticipate it. I don‘t know for a fact, but I would anticipate it coming up, sure.
3. "We anticipate improvement next year," Newsham said.
4. But Police Federation officials anticipate problems.
5. But you don‘t anticipate adjusting your schedule?