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say it: PRED-uh-kayt
predicate is a verb and noun meaning "make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition". It carries 5 recorded senses.
make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
“The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'”
involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
“solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well”
(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”
logic
one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for predicate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.