Difference between Predicts and Portend

PREDICTS vs PORTEND: NOUN

To stretch out before.
To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.
To indicate by prediction; forecast.
To serve as an omen or a warning of; presage.

Promise, Call, Betoken, Omen, Augur, Prefigure, Bode, Presage, Forebode, Forecast, Portend, Foreshadow, Anticipate, Foretell, Prognosticate

Loom, Signify, Foresee, Auspicate, Forecast, Prognosticate, Betoken, Predict, Omen, Prefigure, Augur, Bode, Foretell, Presage, Foreshadow

Expected, Expect, Auspicate, Call, Betoken, Omen, Augur, Prefigure, Presage, Forebode, Forecast, Portend, Foreshadow, Anticipate, Prognosticate

Materialize, Bespeak, Precede, Allude, Forestall, Foresee, Auspicate, Forecast, Prognosticate, Betoken, Omen, Prefigure, Augur, Presage, Foreshadow

Three times Jesus predicts hisraised from the dead.
Nicotine dependence predicts repeated use of prescribed opioids.
While the latter predicts the environmental costs generated by economic projects, the former predicts the economic costs of protectingthe environment.
An unstable family environment predicts the development of the disorder, while a stable family environment predicts a lower risk.
Every time it predicts a word we add it to the output string, and if it predicts the EOS token we stop there.
Poor sleep predicts the development or worsening of disabling LBP, and disabling LBP predicts sleep problems.
Reading interest predicts the amount of future reading a child will do, which in turn predicts future reading skills.
Prophecy predicts by the Word while Typology predicts by the institution, act or person.
Since marital satisfaction is an important predictor of divorce, anything that predicts it probably also predicts divorce.
The results show that childhood maltreatment positively predicts malicious envy and negatively predicts benign envy.