Predicate

Definition: Predicate

Predicate

Adjective

1. (grammar) of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence; "`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'".

Noun

1. (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates".

2. (linguistics) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements.

Verb

1. Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate 'dog' is predicated of the subject 'Fido' in the sentence 'Fido is a dog'".

2. Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President".

3. Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "predicate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)

Computing

Law

Math

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Predicate

Affirmation

Verb: assert; make an assertion; Noun: have one's say; say, affirm, predicate, declare, state; protest, profess.

Rite

Preach, sermonize, predicate, lecture.

Crosswords: Predicate

Books

• The Function of the Predicate in the Fables of Krylov. A text-grammatical study. (reference)

• Grammar of English Predicate Complement Constructions (reference)

• Introduction to Logic: Predicate Logic (reference)

• Predicate and argument in Rengao grammar (reference)

• Predicate Logic: The Semantic Foundations of Logic (reference)

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Expressions using "predicate": computable predicate ♦ predicate adjective ♦ predicate calculus ♦ predicate logic ♦ predicate noun ♦ rhetorical predicate. Additional references.

Beginning with "predicate": predicate-calculus-like, predicate-term.

Ending with "predicate": subject-before-predicate, subject-predicate.

Albanian

presupozoj (presuppose), pohoj (admit, affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, bear out, claim, confirm, have, maintain, protest, reassert), pohim (admission, affirmation, assertion, averment, avowal, claim, confession, confirmation, contention, corroboration, maintenance, predication, proposition, reassurance, showing, testimony), kallëzues (denunciator), atribut (Apanage, appanage, attribute). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرض (assess, commit, direct, enforcement, enjoin, force, impel, impose, imposition, oblige, order, prescription, put, require), ‏مفعول به (object), ‏مسند الى, ‏مسند (attribute, back, cushion, pillow, predicable, predicative, rest, subject), ‏قام على (be based on, depend, premise), ‏حملي, ‏عزا إليه صفة ما, ‏صرح (avow, castle, certify, cut open, declare, edifice, outrival, palace, proclaim, profess, represent, say, state, tower), ‏المحمول (portable), ‏إسنادي (predicative), ‏أكد (accentuate, affirm, assert, asseverate, assure, aver, avouch, bear out, check up on, confirm, contend, corroborate, declare, double check, emphasize, proclaim, profess, protest, punctuate, show, substantiate, swear, underline, underscore, vouch, warrant), ‏أسس (establish, found, institute, organize, plant, promote, set, set up, work up), ‏أعلن (advertise, advertize, announce, avow, bill, blare, celebrate, count, declare, denote, enunciate, gazette, portend, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce, protest, publicize, publish, put out, report, represent, rule, show, sound, state, usher, vote), ‏بنى رأيا على شئ ما. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сказуемо, твърдя (affirm, allege, argue, assert, aver, avouch, charge, claim, maintain, profess), основавам се (work on), налагам (enforce, enjoin, force, force upon, hammer, inculcate, indicate, inflict, levy, necessitate, punish, ramrod, superimpose, thrust, thrust on, towel, wallop), заявявам (affirm, allege, assert, aver, avow, declare, enounce, maintain, proclaim, profess, protest, set out, state), предикат. (various references)

Chinese 

�"詞 , �"语, 謂語 , 述語 . (various references)

Czech

přisoudit, vypovídat (talk, testify), tvrdit (allege, allow, argue, assert, aver, claim, represent, submit, sustain, urge). (various references)

Danish

prædikat. (various references)

Dutch

predikaat, predicaat (mention), gezegde (expression). (various references)

Farsi 

مسندی , مسند (Seat, Substance), مستندکردن , مبتنی کردن , گزاره , خبری , خبردادن (Announce, Delate, Signal), خبر (Advice, Call, Hearsay, Idea, Inkling, Manifest, News, Notice, Word), اطلاق کردن , بصورت مسندقراردادن . (various references)

Finnish

predikaatti. (various references)

French

prédicat (precondition). (various references)

German

Prädikat (class, grade, Mark, rating, title), aussagen (convey a message, declare, give evidence, make a statement, state, testify, to reveal). (various references)

Greek 

κατηγόρημα, κατηγορούμενο (attribute), καθιστώ αναγκαίο (necessitate), βεβαιώ (assert, assure, aver, avouch, vow), υποστηρίζω (assert, back, back up, befriend, bolster, contend, countenance, maintain, patronize, prop, second, shore, sponsor, stand by, stand up for, submit, support, sustain, underpin, uphold), δηλώ (aver, avouch, betoken, declare, denote, pronounce, signify). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"צ�"יר (affirm, asseverate, certify, declare, proclaim, state, testify), לבסס (base, establish, found, ground). (various references)

Hungarian

állítmány (adjunct, predication), állítás (affirmation, allegation, assertion, averment, claim, contention, naked facts, phasing, predication, reassertation, recovery, representation, say so, say-so, statement). (various references)

Indonesian

sebutan predikat. (various references)

Italian

predicato (precondition). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

述部 , 述語 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じゅつぶ, じゅつ�" (postoperative, technical term). (various references)

Korean 

서� 부. (various references)

Manx

corp y raa. (various references)

Pig Latin

edicatepray

Portuguese

predicado (property, quality). (various references)

Romanian

predicat, predica (preach), afirma (affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, claim, declare, hold, maintain, purport, remark, say, speak to, state, submit, undertake). (various references)

Russian 

утверждение (affirmance, affirmation, allegation, assertion, asseveration, averment, claim, lament, maintenance, predication, proposition, ratification, testimony), сказуемое. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predikat, iskaz (account, parole, predication, statement, utterance). (various references)

Spanish

predicado. (various references)

Swedish

predikat. (various references)

Turkish

yüklem, doğrulamak (affirm, attest, avouch, bear out, certify, confirm, correct, corroborate, hold with, homologate, justify, substantiate, support, sustain, testify, verify, vouch), dayandırmak (attribute, base, base on, base upon, found, ground, trace), beyan etmek (affirm, asseverate, attest, avow, be declaratory of, declare, manifest, proclaim, return), belirtmek (define, deliver oneself, denote, embody, emit, enumerate, evidence, exude, feature, import, indicate, manifest, point out, purport, remark, represent, show, sign, signify, specify, state, ventilate). (various references)

Ukrainian

твердження (affirmation, affirmative, assertion, averment, claim, contention, predication, proposition, representation), твердити (affirm, allege, argue, assert, aver, avouch, claim, depose, say), наводити на думку (nudge), проповідувати (preach, pulpit, sermonize), предикат, присудок. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuộc tính, điều đã được khẳng định tính chất. (various references)

kategorein. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "predicate": predicated, predicates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Predicate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bredicote, Perdika, persicae, predacity, predicare, Predicasts, predicatre, predicta, predictam, predicte, preficate, Previati, previcate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: carpeted, decrepit, depicter, picrated, preacted, precited.

-2 letters: adepter, capered, catered, cerated, created, deciare, diptera, paretic, partied, peatier, peracid, picrate, pierced, pirated, predate, predict, preedit, reacted, receipt, recited, retaped, tapered, tierced.

-3 letters: aeried, airted, apiece, caried, carped, carpet, carted, cerate, cerite, craped, crated, create, credit, creped, dearie, decare, deceit, deicer, depart, depict, derate, diaper.

+1 letter: crepitated, depreciate, imprecated, pederastic, predicated, predicates, replicated.

+2 letters: appreciated, apprenticed, decrepitate, deprecating, deprecation, depreciated, depreciates, depreciator, interspaced, predacities, prediabetic, predicament, predicative, predictable, reduplicate.

+3 letters: decrepitated, decrepitates, deprecations, depreciating, depreciation, depreciative, depreciators, depreciatory, deuteranopic, precautioned, precipitated, prediabetics, predicaments, prevaricated, propaedeutic, reciprocated, reduplicated, reduplicates, transpierced.

+4 letters: decrepitating, decrepitation, deprecatingly, deprecatorily, depreciations, intercompared, interpandemic, predicatively, prefabricated, presanctified, propaedeutics, recapitalized, recapitulated, reduplicative, unappreciated, unpredictable.

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