English-Portuguese translations for crystal ball

• bola de cristal
  Se eu olhasse para a minha bola de cristal, é o que eu veria daqui a uns anos. If I looked into my crystal ball, that is what I would see in years to come.
  Não dispondo de uma bola de cristal, não posso saber até onde avançarão as negociações multilaterais da ADD, partindo do ponto onde as deixámos em Julho. I have no crystal ball to see where the multilateral talks in the DDA will go from where we left them in July.
  Muitas vezes visualizámos planos maravilhosos, fechados numa bola de cristal, uma perto da outra, mas impenetráveis entre si. Too often, we have gazed into crystal balls and seen a series of marvellous plans, but each is impenetrable to the next.

Definition of crystal ball

• A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future
• A way of seeing into the future
• One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes

Examples

• The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future
• If her past is a crystal ball to her future, she will perhaps never be rich, even though she is a good, kind, educated, hard-working person

Related words

• crystal
• quasicrystal
• crystallography
• crystallographer
• crystallomancy
• uncrystalline
• crystallised
• crystallized
• crystallize
• crystallise