Preposition vs Premise - What's the difference?
preposition | premise |
(grammar) Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival]] or [[adverb, adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
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(obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
* (rfdate),
To place in a location before some other event occurs.
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
* (William Shakespeare)
(logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
* Dr. H. More
(usually, in the plural, legal) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
(usually, in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts (in this sense, used most often in the plural form).
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, title= To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
To make a premise.
To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
* Addison
To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
* Shakespeare
* E. Darwin
As nouns the difference between preposition and premise
is that preposition is preposition while premise is a proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.As a verb premise is
to state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.preposition
English
(wikipedia preposition)Etymology 1
From (etyl) praepositio'', from ''praeponere'' (to place before); ''prae'' (before) + ''ponere'' (to put, place); compare French ''''. (See position, and compare provost.) So called because it is usually placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in .Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition , the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT:
(121) (a) [To whom''] can I send this letter —?
(121) (b) [''About what''] are they quarrelling —?
(121) (c) [''In which book ] did you read about it —?
- He made a long preposition and oration.
Hypernyms
* adpositionCoordinate terms
* circumposition * postpositionDerived terms
* preposition of time * preposition of place * prepositional * prepositionally * prepositional phraseSee also
* preverbEtymology 2
From pre- + positionAlternative forms
* pre-positionVerb
(en verb)- It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
premise
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic), premissNoun
(en noun)- The premises observed, / Thy will by my performance shall be served.
- While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises , accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Coordinate terms
* conclusionDerived terms
* major premise * minor premiseVerb
(premis)- I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.
- the premised flames of the last day
- if venesection and a cathartic be premised