There is no need to predicate my promotion upon the effectiveness of my secretary!
•You can hardly predicate the picnic on the weather, can you?
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
predicate something on/upon — found or base something on. → predicate … English new terms dictionary
predicate — I UK [ˈpredɪkət] / US noun [countable] Word forms predicate : singular predicate plural predicates linguistics the part of the sentence that contains the verb and its object or complements and gives more information about the subject, for example … English dictionary
predicate — pred|i|cate1 [ predıkət ] noun count LINGUISTICS the part of the sentence that contains the verb and its object or COMPLEMENTS and gives more information about the subject, for example was combing her hair in the sentence Francesca was combing… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
predicate — noun prɛdɪkət 1》 Grammar the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g. went home in John went home). 2》 Logic something which is affirmed or denied concerning an argument of a proposition. verb… … English new terms dictionary
predicate — [pred′i kāt΄; ] for n. [ & ] adj. [, pred′ikit] vt. predicated, predicating [L praedicatus, pp. of praedicare: see PREACH] 1. Obs. to proclaim; preach; declare; affirm 2. a) to affirm as a quality, attribute, or property of a person or thing … English World dictionary
predicate — ► NOUN 1) Grammar the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g. went home in John went home). 2) Logic something which is affirmed or denied concerning an argument of a proposition. ► VERB 1)… … English terms dictionary
Predicate — Pred i*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Predicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Predicating}.] [L. praedicatus, p. p. of praedicare to cry in public, to proclaim. See {Preach}.] 1. To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
predicate — pred·i·cate 1 / pre də ˌkāt/ vt cat·ed, cat·ing: to set or ground on something: find a basis for usu. used with on if Mary s claim is predicated simply on John s duty of support W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al. pred·i·cate 2 / pre di kət/ adj: rela … Law dictionary
Something (disambiguation) — Something is a song by The Beatles.Something may also refer to: * Something , an album by Shirley Bassey * Something , a song by Shakira from Oral Fixation Vol. 2 * Something , a song by Dark Lotus from Tales from the Lotus Pod * Something , a… … Wikipedia
Predicate — Pred i*cate, v. i. To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation. Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
predicate calculus — Logic. See functional calculus. Also called predicate logic. [1945 50] * * * Part of modern symbolic logic which systematically exhibits the logical relations between propositions involving quantifiers such as all and some. The predicate calculus … Universalium
