pred

Noun

predator (plural predators)

1. Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
   • Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.2018 October 15, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for practitioners: Volume 2, Food & Agriculture Org., →ISBN, page 73
2. (informal) Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.

   Synonyms:

   vulture

3. (informal, slang) A sexual predator.

Noun

predicate (plural predicates)

1. The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
   • In the light of this observation, consider Number Agreement in a sentence like:
     (120) They seem to me [_S — to be fools/^✽a fool]
     Here, the Predicate Nominal fools agrees with the italicised NP they, in spite of the fact that (as we argued earlier) the two are contained in different Clauses at...1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 438
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.
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).2000, Ken Henderson, The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 128

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