predicate
11predicate — vb affirm, declare, profess, *assert, aver, protest, avouch, avow, warrant …
12predicate — A predicate is any expression that is capable of connecting with one or more singular terms to make a sentence. A predicate expresses a condition that the entities referred to may satisfy, in which case the resulting sentence will be true. For… …
13predicate — I UK [ˈpredɪkət] / US noun [countable] Word forms predicate : singular predicate plural predicates linguistics the part of the sentence that contains the verb and its object or complements and gives more information about the subject, for example …
14predicate — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin praedicatum, from neuter of praedicatus Date: 15th century 1. a. something that is affirmed or denied of the subject in a proposition in logic b. a term designating a property or relation 2. the… …
15predicate — v. (d; tr.) ( to base ) to predicate on, upon (to predicate a theory on certain facts) * * * [ predɪkeɪt] upon (to predicate a theory on certain facts) (d; tr.) ( to base ) to predicate on …
16predicate — predication, n. predicational, adj. predicative /pred i kay tiv, keuh /; Brit. /pri dik euh tiv/, adj. predicatively, adv. v. /pred i kayt /; adj., n. /pred i kit/, v., predicated, predicating …
17predicate — verything in a sentence that is not part of the subject (i.e., the verb, its qualifiers and complements) is called the predicate. In The man went to town after work, The man is the subject and the rest of the sentence is the predicate. The verb… …
18predicate — pred•i•cate v. [[t]ˈprɛd ɪˌkeɪt[/t]] adj., n. [[t] kɪt[/t]] v. cat•ed, cat•ing, adj. n. 1) to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert 2) pho logic a) to affirm or assert (something) of the subject of a proposition b) to make (a term) the predicate of… …
19predicate — pred|i|cate1 [ predıkət ] noun count LINGUISTICS the part of the sentence that contains the verb and its object or COMPLEMENTS and gives more information about the subject, for example was combing her hair in the sentence Francesca was combing… …
20predicate — predicates, predicating, predicated (The noun is pronounced [[t]pre̱dɪkət[/t]]. The verb is pronounced [[t]pre̱dɪkeɪt[/t]].) 1) N COUNT In some systems of grammar, the predicate of a clause is the part of it that is not the subject. For example,… …
