Contingent vs. Predicate

Contingentnoun

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

Predicatenoun

(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.

‘In "The dog barked very loudly", the subject is "the dog" and the predicate is "barked very loudly".’;

Contingentnoun

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

Predicatenoun

(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.

‘A nullary predicate is a proposition.’; ‘A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.’;

Contingentnoun

(military) A quota of troops.

Predicatenoun

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

Contingentadjective

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

Predicateadjective

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

Contingentadjective

(with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown.

‘The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control.’;

Predicateadjective

Predicated, stated.

Contingentadjective

Dependent on something that may or may not occur.

‘a contingent estate’;

Predicateadjective

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

Contingentadjective

Not logically necessarily true or false.

Predicateverb

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

Contingentadjective

Temporary

‘contingent labor, contingent worker’;

Predicateverb

(transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.

Contingentadjective

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

‘Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage.’;

Predicateverb

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

Contingentadjective

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

Predicateverb

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

Contingentadjective

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

‘If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one.’;

Predicateverb

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

Contingentnoun

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

‘His understanding could almost pierce into future contingents.’;

Predicateverb

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

Contingentnoun

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

‘From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms.’;

Predicateverb

To found; to base.

Contingentnoun

a gathering of persons representative of some larger group;

‘each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics’;

Predicateverb

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

Contingentnoun

a temporary military unit;

‘the peace-keeping force includes one British contingent’;

Predicatenoun

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.

Contingentadjective

possible but not certain to occur;

‘they had to plan for contingent expenses’;

Predicatenoun

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

Contingentadjective

determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established;

‘arms sales contingent on the approval of congress’;

Predicateadjective

Predicated.

Contingentadjective

uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances;

‘the results of confession were not contingent, they were certain’;

Predicatenoun

(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’;

Contingentadjective

subject to chance

‘the contingent nature of the job’;

Predicatenoun

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

Contingentadjective

(of losses, liabilities, etc.) that can be anticipated to arise if a particular event occurs.

Predicateverb

make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition;

‘The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'’;

Contingentadjective

true by virtue of the way things in fact are and not by logical necessity

‘that men are living creatures is a contingent fact’;

Predicateverb

affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of;

‘The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President’;

Contingentadjective

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

‘his fees were contingent on the success of his search’;

Predicateverb

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

‘solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well’;

Contingentnoun

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

‘a contingent of Japanese businessmen attending a conference’;

Contingentnoun

a body of troops or police sent to join a larger force

‘six warships were stationed off the coast with a contingent of 2,000 marines’;