Advance vs Predicate - What's the difference?

Advance is a related term of predicate.

In lang=en terms the difference between advance and predicate

is that advance is to move forwards, to approach while predicate is to suppose, assume; to infer.

As verbs the difference between advance and predicate

is that advance is to bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on while predicate is to announce or assert publicly.

As nouns the difference between advance and predicate

is that advance is a forward move; improvement or progression while predicate is (grammar) the part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.

As an adjective advance

is completed before need or a milestone event.

advance

English

Alternative forms

* advaunce

Verb

(advanc)

To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.

(obsolete) To raise; to elevate.

They advanced their eyelids. — Shakespeare

To raise to a higher rank; to promote.

* Bible, Esther iii. 1

Ahasueres advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.

* Prescott

This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land

To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.

to advance the ripening of fruit

to advance one's interests

To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.

to advance an argument

* Alexander Pope

Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.

To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.

Merchants often advance money on a contract or on goods consigned to them.

To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.

to advance the price of goods

To move forwards, to approach.

He rose from his chair and advanced to greet me.

(obsolete) To extol; to laud.

* Spenser

greatly advancing his gay chivalry

Synonyms

* raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assign

Derived terms

* advancement * in advance * in advance of

Noun

(en noun)

A forward move; improvement or progression.

an advance in health or knowledge

an advance in rank or office

An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.

* Jay

I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances .

* Kent

The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.

An addition to the price; rise in price or value.

an advance on the prime cost of goods

(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

* Jonathan Swift

[He] made the like advances to the dissenters.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , chapter 4:

As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Completed before need or a milestone event.

He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.

Preceding.

The advance man came a month before the candidate.

Forward.

The scouts found a site for an advance base.

Derived terms

* advance person

predicate

English

(wikipedia predicate)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) predicat (French , as Etymology 2, below.

Noun

(en noun)

(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.

In "The dog barked very loudly", the subject is "the dog" and the predicate is "barked very loudly".

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 S-structure. How can this be? Under the NP MOVEMENT analysis of ''seem'' structures, sentences like (120) pose no problem; if we suppose that ''they'' originates in the — position as the subordinate Clause Subject, then we can say that the '''Predicate Nominal agrees with the ''underlying'' Subject of its Clause. How does ''they get from its underlying position as subordinate Clause Subject to its superficial position as main Clause Subject? By NP MOVEMENT, of course!

(logic) 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 nullary predicate''' is a proposition. Also, an instance of a ' predicate whose terms are all constant — e.g., P(2,3) — acts as a proposition.

A predicate can be thought of as either a relation (between elements of the domain of discourse) or as a truth-valued function (of said elements).

A predicate is either valid, satisfiable, or unsatisfiable.

There are two ways of binding a predicate''''s variables: one is to assign constant values to those variables, the other is to quantify over those variables (using universal or existential quantifiers). If all of a '''predicate' s variables are bound, the resulting formula is a proposition.

Thus, in (121) (a) persuade'' is clearly a ''three-place Predicate''''' — that is, a '''Predicate''' which takes three Arguments: the first of these Arguments is the Subject NP ''John'', the second is the Primary Object NP ''Mary'', and the third is the Secondary Object S-bar [''that she should resign'']. By contrast, ''believe'' in (121) (b) is clearly a ''two-place '''Predicate''''' (i.e. a '''Predicate which has two Arguments): its first Argument is the Subject NP ''John'', and its second Argument is the Object S-bar [''that Mary was innocent ].

(computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.

Derived terms

* nominal predicative * predicatable * predicate calculus * predicative adjective * predicatively

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(predicat)

To announce or assert publicly.

(logic) To state, assert.

To suppose, assume; to infer.

* 1859 , Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities :

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.

* 1881 , Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean :

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

(originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.

* 1978 , Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge , trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81):

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

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