predicate

noun

1. The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
2. 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.

   “A propositional variable may be treated as a nullary predicate.”

   “A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.”

3. An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.

   “Predicates are usually found in a query's WHERE or HAVING clauses, though they can be located elsewhere (e.g. in CASE expressions).”

adj

1. Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
2. Predicated, stated.
3. Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.

verb

1. (transitive)To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
2. (transitive)To assume or suppose; to infer.

   “There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.”

   “Of anyone else it would have been said that she was finding the afternoon rather dreary in the vast halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to predicate so surely.”

3. (transitive)To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.

   “The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.”

   “Cryptocurrencies, after all, are in many cases not so much currencies as speculative thingamabobs — digital tokens whose value is predicated largely on the idea that someone will take them off your hands at a higher price than it cost you to acquire them.”

4. (transitive)To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
5. (transitive)To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.

   “1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).”