predicate
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English predicat(e), from Old French predicat (French prédicat), from Medieval Latin praedicātum (“thing said of a subject, predicate”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of praedicātus, the perfect passive participle praedicō (“to proclaim”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix); see also Etymology 2 below.
The adjective was derived from the noun by metanalysis, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: predicates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prædicate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: more predicate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most predicate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prædicate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: predicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: predicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: predicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: predicated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prædicate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
pos: noun
examples: In the light of this observation, consider Number Agreement in a sentence like:
 (120) They seem to me [_S — to be fools/^✽a fool]
 Here, the Predicate Nominal fools agrees with the italicised NP they, in spite of the fact that (as we argued earlier) the two are contained in different Clauses at S-structure. How can this be? Under the NP MOVEMENT analysis of seem structures, sentences like (120) pose no problem; if we suppose that they originates in the — position as the subordinate Clause Subject, then we can say that the Predicate Nominal agrees with the underlying Subject of its Clause. How does they get from its underlying position as subordinate Clause Subject to its superficial position as main Clause Subject? By NP MOVEMENT, of course!
Thus, in (121) (a) persuade is clearly a three-place Predicate — that is, a Predicate which takes three Arguments: the first of these Arguments is the Subject NP John, the second is the Primary Object NP Mary, and the third is the Secondary Object S-bar [that she should resign]. By contrast, believe in (121) (b) is clearly a two-place Predicate (i.e. a Predicate which has two Arguments): its first Argument is the Subject NP John, and its second Argument is the Object S-bar [that Mary was innocent].
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.
A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.
gloss: An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
pos: noun
examples: Predicates are usually found in a query's WHERE or HAVING clauses, though they can be located elsewhere (e.g. in CASE expressions).
gloss: Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
pos: adj
gloss: Predicated, stated.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
pos: adj
gloss: To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To assume or suppose; to infer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.
Of anyone else it would have been said that she was finding the afternoon rather dreary in the vast halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely.
gloss: To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.
Cryptocurrencies, after all, are in many cases not so much currencies as speculative thingamabobs — digital tokens whose value is predicated largely on the idea that someone will take them off your hands at a higher price than it cost you to acquire them.
gloss: To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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”).
Derived words: nonpredicate
predicative
subpredicate
superpredicate
compound predicate word
monadic predicate logic
nominal predicative
predicatable
predicate adjective
predicate calculus
predicate logic
predicate noun
predicative adjective
predicatively
predicator
unpredicated
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