Express vs Predicate - What's the difference?
express | predicate |
(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
* Milton
A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
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, chapter=1/1 A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
An express rifle.
* H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
(obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
* Jeremy Taylor
A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
An express office.
* E. E. Hale
That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
(senseid) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.}}
To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
(biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
(biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
(obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.20:
(obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
* 1646 , (Sir Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , II.5:
(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.
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(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.
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(computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.
To announce or assert publicly.
(logic) To state, assert.
To suppose, assume; to infer.
* 1859 , Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities :
* 1881 , Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean :
(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):
In lang=en terms the difference between express and predicate
is that express is to press, squeeze out (especially said of milk) while predicate is to suppose, assume; to infer.As nouns the difference between express and predicate
is that express is a mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly or express can be (obsolete) the action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression while predicate is (grammar) the part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.As verbs the difference between express and predicate
is that express is (senseid) to convey or communicate; to make known or explicit while predicate is to announce or assert publicly.As an adjective express
is (not comparable) moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.express
English
(wikipedia express)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) expressus, past participle of (exprimere) (see Etymology 2, below).Adjective
(en adjective)- I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
- This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.
- In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
- Their human countenance / The express resemblance of the gods.
Synonyms
* explicit * (of a train) fast, crackAntonyms
* impliedNoun
(es)- I took the express into town.
citation, passage=The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.}}
- "Give me my express ," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.
- the only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth
- She charged him to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
- (Eikon Basilike)
Synonyms
* (of a train) fast trainAntonyms
* (of a train) local, stopperEtymology 2
From (etyl) espresser, (expresser), from frequentative form of (etyl) exprimere.Verb
(es)- The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl [...].
Synonyms
* (l), (l)Noun
(expresses)- Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses .
- This Gentleman [...] caused a man to go down no less than a hundred fathom, with express to take notice whether it were hard or soft in the place where it groweth.
predicate
English
(wikipedia predicate)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) predicat (French , as Etymology 2, below.Noun
(en noun)- 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!
- 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 ].
Derived terms
* nominal predicative * predicatable * predicate calculus * predicative adjective * predicativelyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(predicat)- 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 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.
- The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated .
