Sire vs Antecedent - What's the difference?
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A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
(obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
* Shelley
Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
Earlier, either in time or order.
presumptive
Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
An ancestor.
(grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
* Fowler
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(logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
(math) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a'' in the ratio ''a:b , the other being the consequent.
As nouns the difference between sire and antecedent
is that sire is a lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign while antecedent is in “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”.As a verb sire
is of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.As an adjective antecedent is
earlier, either in time or order.sire
English
Noun
(en noun)- And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
- [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.
Verb
(sir)- In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.
Anagrams
* ----antecedent
English
(wikipedia antecedent)Adjective
(-)- an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
- an antecedent cause
- an antecedent improbability
Noun
{{examples-right, sense=linguistics: expression referred to by pronoun, examples= * In “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”. * In the sentence “I saw my girlfriend yesterday wearing her old jacket which is odd because she almost never wears it.”, the phrase “my girlfriend” is the antecedent of “her” and “old jacket” is the antecedent of “it”.}} (en noun)- [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who'' is appropriated to persons, so ''that'' should have been appropriated to things the antecedent of ''that is often personal.
- One such condition can be formulated in terms of the
c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16)
below:
(16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent
- (rfex)