predicate — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

1. The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.

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   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].

2. 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.

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   A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.

   A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.

3. An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.

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   Predicates are usually found in a query's WHERE or HAVING clauses, though they can be located elsewhere (e.g. in CASE expressions).

Tính từ

1. Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.

2. Predicated, stated.

3. Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.

Động từ

1. To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.

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   • ngoại động từ

2. To assume or suppose; to infer.

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   • ngoại động từ

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   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.

3. To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.

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   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.

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   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.

4. To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.

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   • ngoại động từ

5. To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.

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   • ngoại động từ

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   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”).

Danh từ

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

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   term

   Ví dụ

   ‘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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   verb phrase

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   phrase

Động từ

1. make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   relateinterrelate

   Ví dụ

   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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   proclaim

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   assertasseveratemaintain

   Ví dụ

   The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President

3. involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   connote

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   imply

   Ví dụ

   solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well