Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)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” (n)predicate, verb phraseone of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements Verbs
(v)predicatemake the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition“The predicate ‘dog’ is predicated of the subject ‘Fido’ in the sentence ‘Fido is a dog’” (v)predicate, proclaimaffirm or declare as an attribute or quality of“The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President” (v)connote, predicateinvolve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic“solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well”