(n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
(n.) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
(n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
(n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
(n.) To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
(n.) To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
(v. i.) To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
(2) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(3) There are far too many fast-food premises near schools.
(4) Each case must be assessed on its own premises: the substitution need, the availability of a transplant, the long-term prognosis, and the advantages and disadvantages of a solution with autotransplantation versus solutions without autotransplantation.
(5) Neuronal models in temperature regulation are primarily considered explicit statements of assumptions and premises used in design of experiments and development of descriptive equations concerning the relationships between thermal inputs and control actions.
(6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
(7) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(8) The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.
(9) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
(10) If that premise is accepted, there is much that academic institutions can do to foster utilization of their biotechnological discoveries.
(11) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
(12) As a smaller, weaker, standalone company, it would struggle to invest as much as it does currently.” The company said the UK was repeatedly ranked the best for broadband speeds in the EU and claimed 90% of UK premises had access to fibre optic connections.
(13) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(14) The higher-cost practices were those that maintained donors on the premises specifically for blood donation purposes.
(15) This paper concentrates on the applications of the Project used in Health Centres, where General Practitioners share premises with District Nurses, Health Visitors, Social Workers and other members of the Community Health Care Team.
(16) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
(17) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(18) Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy is Ealing's neatest, and its trippiest; the product of lurid new colour stock (including some alarming back-projection ) and a hallucinatory premise.
(19) Further study is needed to verify this latter premise.
(20) Mr Clarke said tonight that the premises will "now be thoroughly searched, and that is a process that will take some time".
Presuppose
Definition:
(v. t.) To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such use presupposes the existence of reference values.
(2) A comparison is made between five irradiation methods, the dose distribution and volume doses of which had been ascertained by means of two phantoms presupposed differently large.
(3) Complete transfer of the LC fraction to GC is presupposed for obtaining the required sensitivity.
(4) This procedure presupposes that changes of pulmonary O2 (VO2) associated with increases of external work reflect accurately the increased muscle VO2.
(5) The concept of diagnosis-free therapeutic trials presupposes, however, that a sufficiently large number of patients are cured and that their need of investigation is permanently eliminated.
(6) This presupposes the presence of glucocorticoid receptors in the cytoplasma.
(7) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(8) A favorable outcome of pulpotomy combined with the use of calcium hydroxide presupposes that the root pulp is healthy.
(9) Exercise and teaching of musicians presupposes in the individual the constitutive ability to freely execute the finger movements required in the playing of the instrument.
(10) These several observations may be accounted for in terms of a working hypothesis which presupposes a cation carrier complex which pumps K into and Na out of cells of normal volume.
(11) Changes in subjective sensitivity registered in the latter patients did not significantly differ from baseline values and were of opposite direction, which presupposes obligatory combination of EAP with the use of psychoactive drugs during preparation for surgery.
(12) An effective secondary preventive programme to deal with alcohol problems presupposes adequate knowledge of the population's drinking habits, the problems accompanying alcohol abuse, the manner in which the health services encounter the problem drinker, professional expertise in secondary prevention, and the methods shown by research to be effective.
(13) The conceptual organisation of the Knowledge Base presupposes that the framework is structured according to functional, semantic and tier indications, i.e.
(14) The blood supply of horseshoe kidneys is presupposed by evolution.
(15) From the extended period of observation, it can be concluded that pregnancy, birth, puerperium, and lactation do not presuppose any risk of relapse of pulmonary tuberculosis when it is adequately treated even in patients in whom an inactive postchemotherapy cavity persisted.
(16) Public health jurisprudence now presupposes that illness is primarily a matter of individual concern.
(17) In France, though, Rabelais portrayed saints as fools, and coined the phrase: “The wise may be instructed by a fool.” In his great book on Rabelais, Mikhail Bakhtin observes that: “In the eyes of Rabelais’s fool, truth presupposes freedom from personal material interests, from the unholy gift of managing family and personal affairs, but the language of this foolish truth is at the same time earthly and material.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Illustration by Max Cabanes Modernity and postmodernity have banished this role of Fool.
(18) A quantification of the myocardial hypertrophy by means of the R-potential summation method presupposes a correction of the normal potential decrease in the cardio-electric field.
(19) However, this presupposes that patients entered into such a study are capable of improvement with dietary manipulation.
(20) Most current and past research on the cerebral organization of cognitive functions has presupposed certain specialized hemisphere operations.