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Definition: Premise |
PremiseNoun1. A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play". Verb1. Set forth beforehand, often as an explanation: "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand...". 2. Furnish with a preface. 3. Take something as preexisting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "premise" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references) |
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Computing | A first proposition on which subsequent reasoning rests. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: PremiseSynonyms: assumption (n), introduce (v), preface (v), premiss (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: premising (computing). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Precedence | Place before; prefix; premise, prelude, preface. |
Prediction | Usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower. |
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Crosswords: Premise |
| English words defined with "premise": Enthymeme, Epichirema ♦ hysteron proteron ♦ major premise, major premiss, minor premise, minor premiss ♦ Premised, Premising, Premit, Prosylogism ♦ reason ♦ structural sociology, structuralism, Sumption ♦ thesis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "premise": ARTIFICIAL-FOLIAGE ARRANGER ♦ Bligh's creep theory, BUILDING CLEANER ♦ CABLE TELEVISION INSTALLER, Cognitive behavior therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Corner-stone ♦ dictionary flame ♦ Government OSI Profile ♦ logic ♦ membrane theory, mudstone ratio ♦ particle size ♦ Q-switched laser ♦ SOIL CLASSIFICATION, switched access ♦ Volume Rate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "premise": Premit. (references) |
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Clever | The foundation of relationships is based on the premise of mutual purpose. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Health | The general theory of acupuncture is based on the premise that there are patterns of energy flow (Qi) through the body that are essential for health. (references) | |
Business | The basic premise of the model is to ensure open competition with no discrimination. (references) | |
The Minister of Defense, Bjorn Tore Godal, has noted how similar the findings of these two reports are, despite the fact that one is derived from a resource-based premise, and the other from a needs-based premise. (references) | ||
Safety and Security Equipment (SSE) considered in this survey includes, premise control equipment for homes and businesses (alarms, locks, fire fighting equipment) and industrial safety products (security shoes, gloves and helmets). (references) | ||
Economic History | Sweden | Swedish foreign policy is based on the premise that national security is best served by staying free of alliances in peacetime in order to remain neutral in the event of war. (references) |
Russia | The U.S. Government's strategy for assistance to Russia is based on the premise that Russia's transition to democracy and free markets will be a long-term process. (references) | |
Israel | U.S. efforts to reach a Middle East peace settlement are based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and have been based on the premise that as Israel takes calculated risks for peace, the United States will help minimize those risks. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yugoslavia | The Federal Constitution includes restrictions on searches of persons and of premises; similarly under the Serbian Constitution, police must enter a premise with a warrant, or if no warrant is obtained, they may enter in order to "save people and property." Both the Federal and Republic Governments respected these provisions in practice. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | The majority of unions that engaged in collective bargaining during the year reported that some employers continued to reject the underlying premise of collective bargaining--that power in the workplace can be shared according to a contract between the employees and company management for the benefit of both. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore -- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed. |
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Donald Rumsfeld | OK, but, first of all, I don't agree with the premise. And second, I think that there may be an individual or two who feel that way, but I think that's not the consensus at all. |
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| "Premise" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Premise" is used about 345 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 98.55% | 340 | 15,535 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.87% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 345 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "premise": customer premise equipment ♦ major premise ♦ minor premise. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "premise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pronë (acquest, assets, demesne, domain, estate, gear, goods, holding, land, ownership, patrimony, possession, property, realty), premisë, preambul, paraqes si hyrje, përmend paraprakisht, kusht paraprak (prerequisite), godinë (building, campus, construction, edifice, house, joint, premises). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقدمة (advance guard, fore, foreword, headlong, introduction, preamble, preface, prelude, proem, vanguard), قام على (be based on, depend, predicate), تركز على (revolve), إفتراض أساسي, أصدر بمقدمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | въвеждам (bring, bring in, establish, herald, import, initiate, institute, introduce, naturalize, pioneer, prelude, prologue, put in, set up, show, take in, usher in), започвам (begin, come in, commence, enter, enter on, fall to, get under way, handsel, initiate, institute, jump off, kick off, lead, lead off, open, preface, roll, set in, set out on, set up, settle in, start off, start up, take off, tee off, teethe, trigger), предварително условие (precondition, reserve), предпоставям, предпоставка (datum, postulate, precondition, prerequisite), правя предпоставка, приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, buy, concede, cotton, embrace, enrol, enroll, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, purchase, receive, recognize, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 前提 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | premisa, předpoklad (assumption, condition, hypothesis, postulate, precondition, prerequisite, presumption, presupposition, supposition), předeslat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | præmis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | premisse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرضیه مقدم , فرض منطقی کردن , فرض قبلی (Presupposition), قضیه ثابت یااثبات شده , صغری وکبرای قیاس منطقی , بنیادواساس بحث . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | premissi, peruste (argument, basis, ground, reason), lähtökohta (starting-point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prémisse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | voraussetzung (assumption, condition, hypothesis, precondition, prerequisite, presupposition, qualification, requirement, requisite, stipulation, supposition, understanding), prämisse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόταση (clause, motion, offer, overture, proposal, proposition, second, sentence, suggestion), προϋπόθεση (condition, precondition, presupposition, supposition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל" יח מראש (presuppose), " חת יסו". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | premissza (data, datum, premiss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pemisalan (assumption, taking an example). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | premessa (assumption, introduction, preamble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 前提 (preamble, prerequisite, reason). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぜ"てい (front garden, front yard, fundus of the eye, preamble, prerequisite, reason). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | (imperious, Premises). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emisepray premissa. (various references) puncte susmenţionate, premisã (prerequisite), postula (postulate), parte introductivã (opening), lua ca premisã, idee de bazã, clãdire cu acareturi. (various references) предпосылка. (various references) premisa (lemma). (various references) premisa. (various references) premiss, fastighet (estate, house property, house-property, real estate), antagande (acceptance, adoption, assuming, assumption, engagement, espousal, guess, hypothesis, passage, passage of a bill, postulation, supposition, suspicion). (various references) önermenin nedeni olarak göstermek, önceden açıklamak, öncül (antecedent). (various references) вищевикладене, виходити з посилки, посилка (parcel), подавати перед (precede). (various references) say khướt tống tiễn ai đi, say bí tỉ (blink, canned, soused), nh cửa (seat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "premise": premised, premises. (additional references) | |
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"Premise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: penise, permease, Permesso, permis, permiss, Predmost, preies, preise, Preiser, premi, premice, premire, premis, premisce, premiset, premisi, premmias, Premus, Prentise, presime, presise, primie, primis, primise, promisc, promisq, promist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "premise" (pronounced pre"mus) |
| 3 | -m u s | animus, anonymous, autonomous, blasphemous, dermis, enormous, epidermis, famous, grimace, hippopotamus, humus, ignoramus, infamous, isthmus, litmus, magnanimous, mandamus, monogamous, polygamous, posthumous, primus, promise, pumice, ramus, Shamas, shamus, synonymous, thalamus, thermos, unanimous, venomous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: empires, emprise, epimers, imprese, premies, spireme. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: empire, epimer, premie, primes, remise, sempre, simper, spirem. | |
-2 letters: emirs, meres, mires, miser, peers, peise, peris, perms, perse, piers, prees, prese, pries, prime, prims, prise, prism, rimes, ripes, siree, speer, speir, sperm, spier, spire, spree. | |
-3 letters: emes, emir, imps, ires, mere, mire, mirs, mise, peer, pees, peri, perm, pier, pies, pree, prim, rees. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: demireps, emperies, emprises, emprizes, emptiers, epiderms, epimeres, impeders, impreses, moperies, preemies, premiers, premised, premises, premixes, promisee, reimpose, simpered, simperer, spermine, spiremes. | |
+2 letters: distemper, ephemeris, epidermis, epimerase, expertism, hemipters, impellers, imprecise, impressed, impresses, periblems, periderms, peristome, premedics, premieres, premisses, primeness, promisees, reimposed, reimposes, simperers, spermines, temporise. | |
+3 letters: distempers, ephemerids, epimerases, expertisms, hemisphere, hyperemias, imperfects, impetrates, imprecates, impressive, impressure, impureness, membership, oversimple, peperomias, perimeters, periosteum, peristomes, permissive, permittees, permitters, peroxisome, pimpernels, plumberies, polymerise, premoisten, presentism, pretermits, primnesses, recompiles, reemphasis, spermaceti, spermaries, spermicide, spirometer, suppertime, temporised, temporises, temporizes, trumperies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 6D 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -- .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e m i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 006D 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847179758571 |
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