predicament
— Noun
– English
～ a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one; "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"
predicate calculus
— Noun
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～ a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions)
predicate
— Noun
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～ one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
predicate
— Noun
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～ (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; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
predicate
— Verb
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～ involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
predicate
— Verb
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～ affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
predicate
— Verb
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～ make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
predication
— Noun
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～ (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
predicative
— Adjective
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～ of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence; "`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'"
predicatively
— Adverb
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～ occurring within the predicate phrase; "predicatively used adjectives"
predicator
— Noun
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～ an expression that predicates
predict
— Verb
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～ make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
predict
— Verb
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～ indicate, as with a sign or an omen; "These signs bode bad news"
predictability
— Noun
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～ the quality of being predictable
predictable
— Adjective
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～ capable of being foretold
predictably
— Adverb
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～ in a predictable manner or to a predictable degree; "predictably, he did not like the news"
prediction
— Noun
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～ a statement made about the future
prediction
— Noun
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～ the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
predictive
— Adjective
– English
～ of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
predictor
— Noun
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～ information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events; "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance"