predicate

【语】谓语

【逻】谓项[词], 宾词

本质; 属性

predicate

to proclaim, declare, or affirm

to imply or connote

to base or found (a proposition, argument, etc)

to assert or affirm (a property, characteristic, or condition) of the subject of a proposition.to make (a term, expression, etc) the predicate of a proposition

the part of a sentence in which something is asserted or denied of the subject of a sentence; one of the two major components of a sentence, the other being the subject.(as modifier)

an expression that is derived from a sentence by the deletion of a name.a property, characteristic, or attribute that may be affirmed or denied of something. The categorial statement all men are mortal relates two predicates, is a man and is mortal.the term of a categorial proposition that is affirmed or denied of its subject. In this example all men is the subject, and mortal is the predicate.a function from individuals to truth values, the truth set of the function being the extension of the predicate

of or relating to something that has been predicated