predicate Definition
predi·cate (pred′i kāt′; for n. & adj., -kit)
transitive verb -·cat′ed, -·cat′·ing
- Obsolete to proclaim; preach; declare; affirm
- to affirm as a quality, attribute, or property of a person or thing to predicate the honesty of another's motives
- Logic to assert (something) about the subject of a proposition
- to affirm or base (something) on or upon given facts, arguments, conditions, etc.
- to imply or connote
Etymology: L praedicatus, pp. of praedicare: see preach
intransitive verb
to make an affirmation or statement
noun
- Gram. the verb or verbal phrase, including any complements, objects, and modifiers, that is one of the two immediate constituents of a sentence and asserts something about the subject
- Logic something that is affirmed or denied about the subject of a proposition (Ex.: green in “grass is green”)
Etymology: ML praedicatum, neut. of praedicatus: see predicatethe
adjective
Gram. of or having the nature of a predicate a predicate adjective
predicate Related Forms
pred′i·ca′·tion noun
pred′i·ca′·tive adjective
pred′i·ca′·tively adverb
predicate Synonyms
predicate Synonyms
predicate Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- assumption: MIS partitioning has been predicated on the assumption that there are no indices for purely MIS purposes.
- notion: Performance art practice over the decades has often been predicated on the notion of meetings: contact and exchange.
- belief: Policies designed to address the problem have been predicated on this belief.
- existence: Our comments on changes to certificates of immunity below are predicated on the existence of consultation on such applications.
Converse of object
- satisfy: The index contains entries for only those table rows that satisfy the predicate.
- define: Finally, you just may have really forgotten to define some predicate.
Adjective modifier
- vague: This is not the case with vague predicates like hot, or tall.
- binary: The optional third argument must be a binary predicate, a binary function returning a boolean value.
- static: Static predicates are used to capture the exact set required.
- logical: In formal reasoning, such open sentences may be transformed into logical predicates in the usual way.
- moral: It is obvious that machines simply cannot be the bearer of moral predicates.
Modifies a noun
- calculus: Such a question is irrelevant at the level of predicate calculus.
- logic: Of course, in predicate logic, there should be no need to worry about the order.
- transformer: Need to show that the BM's are isomorphic to the predicate transformers.
- adjective: This apple is really big ). Adjectives used like this after the verb to be are known as predicate adjectives.
- arc: In particular, it is common that a subject node in the RDF graph has multiple outgoing predicate arcs.
- p: In both cases, a delimiter is a character satisfying the predicate p.
Noun used with modifier
- one-place: If Q 1 is a one-place predicate letter in K, then I ( Q ) is a subset of d.
- first-order: The combinatorics was introduced by Ramsey to solve a special case of the decision problem for the first-order predicate calculus.
- query: For convenience of discussion assume that query predicates are such that the lower boundaries of these fall on partition boundaries.
Browse dictionary entries near predicate
- ‹ predicant
- ‹ predicament
- ‹ predicable
- ‹ predial
- ‹ predetermined
- ‹ predetermine
- ‹ predestine
- ‹ predestination
- ‹ predestinate
- ‹ predestinarian
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- predict ›
- predictable ›
- prediction ›
- predictive ›
- predictive dialer ›
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- predilection ›
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- predisposed ›

