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Definition: PREDICABLE |
PREDICABLEAdjective1. Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable. Noun1. One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident. 2. Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals. |
Date "PREDICABLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | Pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant; positive; certain; express, explicit; (patent); absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted; predicable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PREDICABLE |
| English words defined with "PREDICABLE": Predicability. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PREDICABLE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (predicable). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Brazil | So far, these measures have reduced industrial output, and have resulted in a predicable downgrading of economic growth for the country. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PREDICABLE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PREDICABLE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PREDICABLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسند (attribute, back, cushion, pillow, predicate, predicative, rest, subject). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който може да се твърди, който може да се заяви, атрибут (attribute, predicament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prédicable. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aussagbar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βεβαιώσιμοσ (affirmable, certifiable, comfirable, verifiable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edicablepray predicable. (various references) iddia edilebilir şey, iddia edilebilir. (various references) có thể xác nhận, có thể nhận chắc, có thể khẳng định, điều có thể nhận chắc, điều có thể khẳng định. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PREDICABLE": predicables. (additional references) | |
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"PREDICABLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: predicables. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-i-l-p-r" | |
-1 letter: calipered. | |
-2 letters: bediaper, calibred, credible, parceled, pedalier, replaced, rideable. | |
-3 letters: baldric, beadier, bedrail, bedrape, belaced, bipedal, bleared, brailed, caliber, calibre, calipee, caliper, capered, carbide, cleared, creedal, debacle, deciare, decibel, declare, decrial, leadier, pearled, pedicab, pedicel, pedicle, peracid, percale, periled, piebald, pierced, pleader, predial, radicel, radicle, relaced, replace, replead, replica, replied, ridable. | |
-4 letters: abider, aedile. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-i-l-p-r" | |
+1 letter: depreciable, predicables, predictable. | |
+2 letters: decipherable. | |
+3 letters: unpredictable. | |
+4 letters: disrespectable, indecipherable, republicanized, undecipherable, unpredictables. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 44 49 43 41 42 4C 45 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -.. .. -.-. .- -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01000100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E D I C A B L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0044 0049 0043 0041 0042 004C 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50523938433735364639 |
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