Verb vs. Predicate
Verbnoun
(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
Verbnoun
(obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
Verbnoun
(figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
Verbnoun
(programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
Verbverb
To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
Verbverb
To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
Verbnoun
A word; a vocable.
Verbnoun
A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
Verbnoun
a word that serves as the predicate of a sentence
Verbnoun
a content word that denotes an action or a state
Verbnoun
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
Verbverb
use (a word that is not conventionally used as a verb, typically a noun) as a verb
Verb
A verb (from Latin verbum 'word') is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive.
Predicatenoun
(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.
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.
Predicatenoun
(computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.
Predicateadjective
(grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
Predicateadjective
Predicated, stated.
Predicateadjective
(law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
Predicateverb
(transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
Predicateverb
(transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
Predicateverb
to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
Predicateverb
To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
Predicateverb
To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
Predicateverb
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
Predicateverb
To found; to base.
Predicateverb
To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
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.
Predicatenoun
The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
Predicateadjective
Predicated.
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;
Predicatenoun
one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
Predicateverb
make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition;
Predicateverb
affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of;
Predicateverb
involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic;
