Predicate vs. Attribute — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Predicate and Attribute
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Predicate
To base or establish (a statement or action, for example)
I predicated my argument on the facts.
Attribute
To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe
Attributed their failure to a lack of preparation.
Predicate
To state or affirm as an attribute or quality of something
The sermon predicated the perfectibility of humankind.
Attribute
To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time
Attributed the painting to Titian.
Attributed the vase to 18th-century Japan.
Predicate
To carry the connotation of; imply.
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Attribute
A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.
Predicate
(Logic) To make (a term or expression) the predicate of a proposition.
Attribute
An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office
Lightning bolts are an attribute of Zeus.
Predicate
To proclaim or assert; declare.
Attribute
(Grammar) A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog.
Predicate
To make a statement or assertion.
Attribute
A characteristic or quality of a thing.
His finest attribute is his kindness.
Predicate
(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.
Attribute
An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.
Predicate
(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.
Attribute
(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
Predicate
(Grammar) Of or belonging to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
Attribute
(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
Predicate
Stated or asserted; predicated.
Attribute
An option or setting belonging to some object.
This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.
Predicate
(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
Attribute
(programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
Predicate
(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 propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.
A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.
Attribute
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Predicate
(computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.
Attribute
A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
Predicate
(grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
Attribute
To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
Predicate
Predicated, stated.
Attribute
To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
This poem is attributed to Browning.
Predicate
(law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
Attribute
To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
Predicate
(transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
Attribute
That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . .It is an attribute to God himself.
Predicate
(transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
Attribute
Reputation.
Predicate
To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
Attribute
A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
Predicate
To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
Attribute
Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
Predicate
To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
Attribute
A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;
Self-confidence is not an endearing property
Predicate
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
Attribute
An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
Predicate
To found; to base.
Attribute
Attribute or credit to;
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
People impute great cleverness to cats
Predicate
To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
Attribute
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;
The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
Predicate
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.
Predicate
The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
Predicate
Predicated.
Predicate
(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
Predicate
One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
Predicate
Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition;
The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'
Predicate
Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of;
The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President
Predicate
Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic;
Solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well
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