Predicate

Word PREDICATE
Character 9
Hyphenation pred i cate
Pronunciations /ˈpɹɛdɪkət/

Definitions and meanings of "Predicate"

What do we mean by predicate?

To base or establish (a statement or action, for example). intransitive verb

To state or affirm as an attribute or quality of something. intransitive verb

To carry the connotation of; imply. intransitive verb

To make (a term or expression) the predicate of a proposition. intransitive verb

To proclaim or assert; declare. intransitive verb

To make a statement or assertion. intransitive verb

One of the two main constituents of a sentence or clause, modifying the subject and including the verb, objects, or phrases governed by the verb, as opened the door in Jane opened the door or is very sleepy in The child is very sleepy. noun

That part of a proposition that is affirmed or denied about the subject. For example, in the proposition We are mortal, mortal is the predicate. noun

Of or belonging to the predicate of a sentence or clause. adjective

Stated or asserted; predicated. adjective

To declare; assert; affirm; specifically, to affirm as an attribute or quality of something; attribute as a property or characteristic.

To assert, as a proposition or argument, upon given grounds or data; found; hence, to base, as an action, upon certain grounds or security: as, to predicate a loan.

Predicated; belonging to a predicate; constituting a part of what is predicated or asserted of anything; made, through the instrumentality of a verb, to qualify its subject, or sometimes its direct object: thus, in the following sentences the italicized words are predicate: he is an invalid; he is ill; it made him ill; they elected him captain.

That which is predicated or said of a subject in a proposition; in grammar, the word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed or denied of the subject; that part of the sentence which is not the subject. See proposition. noun

A class name; a title by which a person or thing may be known, in virtue of belonging to a class. noun

To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation. intransitive verb

Predicated. adjective

That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, “Paper is white,” “Ink is not white,” whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink. noun

The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject. noun

To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another). transitive verb

(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.

A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

An operator or function that returns either true or false.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Predicate

The word "predicate" in example sentences

-- The short line following the subject line represents the entire predicate, and is supposed to be continued in the three horizontal lines that follow, each of which represents one of the parts of the _compound predicate_. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

a modifier of the subject, because ----; _rudely_ is a modifier of the predicate, because ----; _The letters_ is the modified subject, _were rudely carved_ is the _modified predicate_. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

Ask someone to tell you what a predicate is and be prepared to see the deer-in-the-headlight phenomenon! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here Nishida might have further developed a phenomenology of the agency of predication, but instead he moves to a more logical account of its scope and developed what he called a predicate logic. ❋ Maraldo, John (2005)

A [X: = T] where T is any term predicate, which may itself involve a quantification over all predicates. ❋ Coquand, Thierry (2006)

The so-called 'predicate' -/pid = = 968/uses the predefined dtrace variable 'pid', which always evaluates to the process ID associated with the thread that fired the corresponding probe. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A series of statements in predicate logic where the impact of the piece comes from the viewer’s epiphanic recognition of a missing step or an invalid inference that has some broader significance in the total context of the work? ❋ Unknown (2005)

The 510 (k) process is designed for products that are similar to earlier devices, known as predicate devices. ❋ Alicia Mundy (2010)

At the same time, though, she is denied the agency of humanity -- is twice removed from it, in fact, in a sentence where her kin (her male kin) are the subject, and the predicate is their passive observation of another agency (the "priests") acting upon an individual reduced to the status of object. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

The predicate is a Red city in a Red state, so some cooperation can be gotten from the government. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These elements are: objects (direct, indirect, prepositional), predicatives (aka predicate complements: subject complements and object complements) and adverbials (either obligatory or adjuncts). ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to Leibniz, PSR must actually follow from PIN, for if there were a truth that had no reason, then there would be a proposition whose subject did not contain the predicate, which is a violation of Leibniz's conception of truth. ❋ Look, Brandon C. (2007)

Moore takes it for granted that the meaning of a predicate is the property for which it stands. ❋ Pigden, Charles (2007)

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