predicate

noun · adjective · verbB2

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noun

Plural noun:

predicatesprædicate

1.
(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
2.
(logic) 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.
A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.
A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.
3.
(programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.

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adjective

Comparative

more predicatemost predicate

Superlative

prædicate

1.
(grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
2.
Predicated, stated.
3.
(law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.

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verb

V_es/s

predicates

V_ing/Gerund

predicating

V_ed/pp

predicatedprædicate

1.
(transitive)To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
2.
(transitive)To assume or suppose; to infer.
3.
(transitive)(transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.
4.
(transitive)(transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
5.
(transitive)(transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).

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nonpredicatepredicative subpredicatesuperpredicate

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ine-pro From Middle English predicat(e), from Old French predicat (prédicat), from praedicātum (thing said of a subject, predicate), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of praedicātus, the perfect passive participle praedicō (to proclaim), see -ate; see also Etymology 2 below.