expectation vs prospect

expectation

noun
  • The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. 

  • The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. 

  • The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment. 

  • The arithmetic mean. 

  • The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. 

  • The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank. 

  • That which is expected or looked for. 

prospect

noun
  • The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation. 

  • Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect. 

  • A hope; a hopeful. 

  • A position affording a fine view; a lookout. 

  • The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook. 

  • A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. 

  • Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team. 

  • The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable. 

  • A potential client or customer. 

  • The façade of an organ. 

verb
  • To search, as for gold. 

  • To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location. 

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