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predicate (PRED i kayt") (verb)
To suggest, to state, or to declare that something is true, or justified: The preacher's sermon made efforts to predicate that people who follow the teachings of Christ are true Christians.

Douglas tends to predicate his theories on faulty assumptions.

predicate (PRED i kit") (noun)
The part of a sentence that expresses what is said about the subject: In the sentence, "Jane loves to read books", the subject is "Jane" and the predicate is "loves to read books".

Sentences normally have two basic parts, a "subject" and a "predicate".

The simple subject is the principal noun or pronoun that tells what a sentence is about; while the simple predicate is the verb or verb phrase that tells something about the subject; for example, "Penguins dive deep into the water."

In most sentences, the meaning of the simple subject and the simple predicate is expanded or modified by the addition of other words and phrases. The complete subject consists of the simple subject and all of the words that modify it, while the complete predicate consists of the simple predicate and all the words that modify or complete it; for example: "The penguins of Antarctica dive hundreds of feet into the ocean."

A compound predicate has two or more verbs or verb phrases that are joined by a conjunction and have the same subject or subjects: "Diane and Jim will wash the dishes, mop the floor, and cook dinner."

predict (pri DIKT) (verb)
To foretell a future event based on reason or experience: The meteorologist's job is to predict the weather to the best of his ability using weather maps, etc.
predictive (pri DIK tiv) (adjective)
Characteristic of something that foretells a situation: High blood pressure could be predictive of future heart problems.

The speech that the educational critic for the newspaper made seemed predictive of the future of grammar and creative writing in the schools.

Lucinda attempted to predict that children will no longer know what a predicate is and she tried to predicate her theories on the recent test scores from the schools.

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predict (verb), predicts; predicted; predicting
To foretell, to prophesy, or to announce an event, etc. before it happens: Unemployment data is predicted to be higher following month.

Weather forecasters are said to be in the only profession that can predict events and be wrong so often and still stay in business.

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Astrology
(the science of the stars, anciently equivalent to astronomy, which was known as natural astrology, and used to predict such natural events as eclipses, the date of Easter, and meteorological phenomena)
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3. Scientific method, developoment of theory to predict new phenomena
The development of a theory that is used to predict new phenomena where the theory is a general statement that explains the facts.

A theory can lead to a new conclusion or the discovery of a phenomenon. Developments of a theory often result in a change in paradigm; that is, looking at or thinking about a scientific problem in a totally different way as indicated by a set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitute a way of viewing reality for the scientific community that shares them.

—Based on information compiled from "Why Is Measurement Important to Science?"
by Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Editorial Director; The New York Public Library Science Desk Reference;
A Stoneson Press Book, Macmillan Publishers; New York; 1995; page 2.
This entry is located in the following unit: Measurements and Mathematics Terms (page 1)