Definitions for predicates

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predicates pred·i·cate

Spelling: [verb pred-i-keyt; adjective, noun pred-i-kit]

IPA: /verb ˈprɛd ɪˌkeɪt; adjective, noun ˈprɛd ɪ kɪt/

Predicates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1194 anagrams from letters in predicates (acdeeiprst).

Definitions for predicates

noun

1. Grammar. (in many languages, as English) a syntactic unit that functions as one of the two main constituents of a simple sentence, the other being the subject, and that consists of a verb, which in English may agree with the subject in number, and of all the words governed by the verb or modifying it, the whole often expressing the action performed by or the state attributed to the subject, as is here in Larry is here.
2. Logic. that which is affirmed or denied concerning the subject of a proposition.

adjective

1. predicated.
2. Grammar. belonging to the predicate:

verb (used with object)

1. to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
2. Logic. to affirm or assert (something) of the subject of a proposition. to make (a term) the predicate of such a proposition.
3. to connote; imply:
4. to found or derive (a statement, action, etc.); base (usually followed by on):

verb (used without object)

1. to make an affirmation or assertion.

Origin of predicates

1400-50; (noun) late Middle English (Middle French predicat) Medieval Latin praedicātum, noun use of neuter of Latin praedicātus, past participle of praedicāre to declare publicly, assert, eq

Examples for predicates

FRIEDMAN: I think you also laid the predicate for the Iran negotiations.

In 'the matter seems clear,' 'clear' is part of the predicate of 'matter.'

A long subject is often separated from the predicate by a comma.

Are we therefore to predicate original depravity of man's body?

Of all such actions we predicate not courage, but a name indicative of order.

In reality the essence of which we predicate these attributes is one and simple.

A verb should agree in number with its subject, and not with its predicate.

For all that is predicated of the predicate will be predicated also of the subject.

Where there is no danger of obscurity, the subject must not be separated from the predicate by any point.

The train of consequences which follows, is inferred by altering the predicate into 'not many.'