Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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term | Yes | No | Yes | No |
predicate | Yes | No | Yes | No |
term (noun) | predicate (noun) |
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(architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements |
any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial | (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 |
a word or expression used for some particular thing | |
one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition | |
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | |
a limited period of time | |
the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent |
term (verb) | predicate (verb) |
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name formally or designate with a term | affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of |
involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | |
make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition |