predicate
pronunciation
How to pronounce predicate in British English:
UK [ˈpredɪkət]
How to pronounce predicate in American English:
US ['predɪkət]
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- Noun:
- (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
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
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- Verb:
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
Word Origin
- predicate
- predicate: see indicate
- predicate (n.)
- mid-15c., a term in logic, from Middle French predicat and directly from Medieval Latin predicatum, from Latin praedicatum "that which is said of the subject," noun use of neuter past participle of praedicare "assert, proclaim, declare publicly," from prae- "forth, before" (see pre-) + dicare "proclaim," from stem of dicere "to speak, to say" (see diction). Grammatical sense is from 1630s. Related: Predicative; predicator; predicatory.
- predicate (adj.)
- 1887, from Latin praedicatus, past participle of praedicare "proclaim, announce" (see predicate (n.)).
- predicate (v.)
- 1550s, back formation from predication, or else from Latin praedicatus, past participle of praedicare "proclaim, announce" (see predicate (n.)). Related: Predicated; predicating. Phrase predicated on "founded on, based on," is American English, first recorded 1766.
Example
- 1. Lambda functions remove all the need for the scaffolding code , and allow a predicate function to be defined in-line in another statement .
- 2. Methods that return values of type boolean are called predicate methods and play an important role in modern programming .
- 3. The abstract terms of the judgment , ' the individual is the universal ' , present the subject ( as negatively self relating ) as what is immediately concrete , while the predicate is what is abstract , indeterminate , in short , the universal .
- 4. But , of course , the rose , being something concrete , is not merely red ; on the contrary , it also has a scent , a definite form , and all manner of other features , which are not contained within the predicate " red " .