PREDICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predicate mean? 

• PREDICATE (noun)
  The noun PREDICATE has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: PREDICATE used as a noun is rare.

• PREDICATE (verb)
  The verb PREDICATE has 3 senses:

1. make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition

2. affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

3. involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic

  Familiarity information: PREDICATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDICATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

'Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates

Hypernyms ("predicate" is a kind of...):

term (one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition)

Domain category:

logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)

Derivation:

predicate (make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

predicate; verb phrase

Hypernyms ("predicate" is a kind of...):

phrase (an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence)

Derivation:

predicate (make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition)

• PREDICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they predicate ... he / she / it predicates
Past simple: predicated   
Past participle: predicated   
-ing form: predicating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The predicate 'dog' is predicated of the subject 'Fido' in the sentence 'Fido is a dog'

Hypernyms (to "predicate" is one way to...):

interrelate; relate (be in a relationship with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

predicate ((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)

predicative (of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence)

predicator (an expression that predicates)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

predicate; proclaim

Context example:

The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President

Hypernyms (to "predicate" is one way to...):

assert; asseverate; maintain (state categorically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

predication ((logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

connote; predicate

Context example:

solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well

Hypernyms (to "predicate" is one way to...):

imply (suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

predication ((logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument)

 Context examples 

It consists of a subject, predicate and object.

(Image Annotation Statement, NCI Thesaurus)

A higher-order function which takes a predicate and a list and returns those elements of the list for which the predicate is true.

(Filter, NCI Thesaurus)

A declaration of a relationship between entities, consisting of a subject, predicate and object.

(Entity Statement, NCI Thesaurus)

A turned ‹a› (‹ɐ›) is used by the International Phonetic Alphabet for the near-open central vowel, while a turned capital ‹A› (‹∀›) is used in predicate logic to indicate universal quantification.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A terminology concept modeled in a structured and formally well-understood way using logic-based semantics which can be given by a translation into first-order predicate logic.

(Description Logic Concept, NCI Thesaurus)

An act or process of elucidation; explication, or explanation of the meaning of the event or thing via the assignment of objects from the domain to the constants of a formal language, truth-values to the proposition symbols, truth-functions to the connectives, other functions to the function symbols, and extensions to the predicates, if any.

(Interpretation, NCI Thesaurus)