Predicate vs. Predicative — What's the Difference?

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

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

To state or affirm as an attribute or quality of something

To state or affirm as an attribute or quality of something

To carry the connotation of; imply.

To carry the connotation of; imply.

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

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

To proclaim or assert; declare.

To proclaim or assert; declare.

To make a statement or assertion.

To make a statement or assertion.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

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

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

Stated or asserted; predicated.

Stated or asserted; predicated.

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

Modifying a noun while in a predicate phrase, which predicate phrase is other than the noun phrase and occurs after a verb, as a predicate; contrasted with attributive.

(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.

(grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which complements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.

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

(grammar) In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being.

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

Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term.

Predicated, stated.

Of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence;

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

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

(transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.

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

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

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

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

To found; to base.

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

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.

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

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;