(v. t.) To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
(v. t.) To found; to base.
(v. i.) To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
(a.) Predicated.
Example Sentences:
(1) His proposals are therefore predicated on a cut in potential income for EU migrants being sufficient to slow the numbers of poorer EU migrants coming to the UK.
(2) Clinical evaluation and management should be predicated upon pathophysiologic considerations, with examination technique and extent individualized for each case.
(3) Such an overall approach, here developed from the model of carrageenin-induced inflammation, also predicates that lysosomal enzymes, lipid peroxide and proamidase (related, respectively, to the inflammatory response in a narrow sense, to tissue damage and to tissue repair) are three basic parameters required when studying inflammatory processes.
(4) Interpretation of plasma concentration data during encainide therapy is predicated on an understanding of the role of active metabolites during treatment.
(5) Their use must be predicated by a differentiation of which arterial segments are hemodynamically involved, yet this determination may not be possible even after extensive noninvasive and invasive investigation.
(6) This level of diagnostic skills is predicated upon the ability to make a judgment on the basis of inherently ill-defined and insufficient data or, in other words, upon the ability to use rules and procedures of clinical inference.
(7) Immunologic mechanisms involved in tumor cell destruction are predicated principally on in vitro procedures, but the relevancy of these experimental observations to the actual events in vivo remains unclear and unresolved.
(8) Therefore, although impaired breathing may complicate swallowing dysfunction and vice versa, it does not appear that one can be predicated from the other.
(9) Appropriate changes in public health policy need not be predicated on results from still further studies.
(10) Since my correspondent refused to be named, I felt there was little to be gained from meeting him as my deservedly award-winning non-fiction had always been predicated on full disclosure.
(11) Although chest radiology is the first imaging option in evaluating patients for pulmonary manifestations of drug toxicity, the limitations of the pattern approach often predicate the use of other imaging techniques in addition to clinical and laboratory evaluation.
(12) These studies were predicated on observations that subjects who were more resistant to SMS had higher plasma AVP after severe nausea than subjects with lower resistances.
(13) The present discussion suggests an alternative explanation making reference to text-level representations, and particularly to the lexicalization of predicates.
(14) Their starting predicate – that the old ways of traditional media are inefficient and scream to be changed – is one reason why Google has fundamentally misread the reaction of publishers and authors to its quest to digitise the 20m or so books ever published.
(15) Most of the research on the regulation of immune responses has been predicated on the assumption that such regulation is accomplished by the interacting components of the immune system itself, e.g.
(16) Reliance on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of the thyroid as the key determinant whether to observe only or proceed surgically is predicated on achieving a minimal false-negative error rate (the incidence of malignant disease in nodules diagnosed benign by means of FNA).
(17) "Ninety-nine per cent of decisions are predicated on feelings – instinctive, emotional, fears, conflicts, unresolved childhood problems.
(18) Furthermore, equivalency and superiority of antigingivitis agents or devices should be predicated, at least in part, on their ability to prevent the onset of periodontitis.
(19) The assay is predicated on the ability of immobilized monoclonal antibody to distinguish glycated albumin from all other plasma proteins, followed by detection and quantitation of the bound glycoalbumin with an enzyme-conjugated second antibody directed against human albumin.
(20) It was a voice that was predicated on inclusion and difference, multiple perspectives not a single dominant view.
Verbal
Definition:
(a.) Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
(a.) Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
(a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
(a.) Abounding with words; verbose.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
(n.) A noun derived from a verb.
Example Sentences:
(1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(2) Heart rate, blood pressure and verbal reports of emotional experience were measured.
(3) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
(4) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(5) A group of pregnant women received video and verbal feedback during three ultrasound examinations.
(6) Response requirements are manual rather than verbal so that, in addition to monitoring heart rate, subjects' exhaled air may be collected throughout the task in order to determine oxygen consumption.
(7) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
(8) During the initial 6-hour efficacy evaluation, analgesia was measured using verbal and visual scriptors and vital signs, and acute toxicity information was recorded.
(9) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
(10) Verbal activity was measured by counting the number of times each patient was MA during the course of the group.
(11) We see a lot of verbal gymnastics by these candidates at public events,” said Paul S Ryan at the Campaign Legal Center.
(12) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
(13) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
(14) The nonverbal task was administered to the patients with PD, patients with AD and normal control subjects studied with the verbal task.
(15) Neuropsychological functioning in 90 male and female alcoholics and 65 peer controls was examined using both accuracy and time measures for four basic types of neuropsychological functioning: verbal skills, learning and memory, problem-solving and abstracting, and perceptual-motor skills.
(16) Correlations with other measures indicated strong association with tests of spatial visualization and virtually no association with tests of verbal ability.
(17) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
(18) This paper presents a comparison between three different modes of simulation of the diagnostic process-a computer-based system, a verbal mode, and a further mode in which cards were selected from a large board.
(19) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
(20) This correlation appeared strongest for those with high verbal IQ.