predicate meaning

• Noun: predicate  predikut
  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
     "'Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates" 
  2. One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
     - verb phrase
  Verb: predicate  'predu`keyt
  1. Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
     "The predicate 'dog' is predicated of the subject 'Fido' in the sentence 'Fido is a dog'" 
  2. Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
     "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
     - proclaim 
  3. Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
     "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
     - connote

  Derived forms: predicating, predicates, predicated

  See also: predication, predicative, predicator

  Type of: assert, asseverate, imply, interrelate, maintain, phrase, relate, term

  Encyclopedia: Predicate

• 
  [Computer]
  predicate logic

• Can anything be predicated about a non-existent thing?
• America's eventual supremacy has been predicated incessantly.
• He rejected all attempts to predicate general principles of morality and law on the empirical nature of man.
• That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicated of him.
• No longer supports noninteger positional predicates
• In versus a series of predicates tied together with or
• This will allow the predicate to be applied to the index
• There is no predicating / knowing what may happen to him
• Comparing full-text functions and full-text predicates
• As in xpath, within the predicate contained inside the

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