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Polyphaser
- - A machine generating more than one pressure wave; a multiphaser.
Poor Rates
- noun - a local tax for the relief of the poor
Porterages
- noun - the charge for carrying burdens by porters
- the transportation of burdens by porters
Postulated
- verb - maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"
- require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
Postulates
- noun - (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
- maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"
- require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
- To put forward a concept or suggestion or solution to a problem
Potentates
- noun - a ruler who is unconstrained by law
Predicated
- verb - affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
Predicates
- noun - (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
Primulales
- noun - Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae
Printmaker
- noun - an artist who designs and makes prints