Contingent vs. Predicate — What's the Difference?

Subject to chance

To base or establish (a statement or action, for example)

Occurring or existing only if (certain circumstances) are the case; dependent on

To state or affirm as an attribute or quality of something

A group of people sharing a common feature, forming part of a larger group

To carry the connotation of; imply.

Liable but not certain to occur; possible

(Logic) To make (a term or expression) the predicate of a proposition.

Dependent on other conditions or circumstances; conditional

To proclaim or assert; declare.

Happening by or subject to chance or accident; unpredictable

To make a statement or assertion.

(Logic) True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true

(Grammar) One of the two main constituents of a sentence or clause, modifying the subject and including the verb, objects, or phrases governed by the verb, as opened the door in Jane opened the door or is very sleepy in The child is very sleepy.

A group or detachment, as of troops or police, assigned to aid a larger force.

(Logic) That part of a proposition that is affirmed or denied about the subject. For example, in the proposition We are mortal, mortal is the predicate.

A representative group that is selected from or part of a larger group.

(Grammar) Of or belonging to the predicate of a sentence or clause.

An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.

Stated or asserted; predicated.

An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.

(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.

That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.

(logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

(military) A quota of troops.

(computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.

Possible or liable, but not certain to occur.

(grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.

(with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.

Predicated, stated.

Not logically necessarily true or false.

(law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.

Temporary.

(transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.

Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.

(transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.

Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.

To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.

Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.

To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.

An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.

To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.

That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.

To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

A gathering of persons representative of some larger group;

To found; to base.

A temporary military unit;

To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.

Possible but not certain to occur;

That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.

Determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established;

The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.

Uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances;

Predicated.

(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;

One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition;

Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of;

Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic;