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premise::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | premiss |
| Type of | suppose, presuppose |
premise::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | assumption, premiss |
| Type of | postulate, posit |
| Has types | major premiss, minor premise, minor premiss, precondition, scenario, stipulation, subsumption, condition, thesis, major premise |
Examples of premise
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The latest film to test that premise is The Rite, which opens in theaters today.
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Here's a series that asks you right up front to go with the flow of the premise.
From the sfgate.com
Now, I want to go back to your initial premise of us being close to Wall Street.
From the time.com
This is yet another sitcom based on the premise of the Emasculated American Man.
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The studio has labored hard to keep the central premise of the film under wraps.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Despite the left-field premise, its concerns are those of a conventional sitcom.
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The original premise was to maintain marginal farmland as a refuge for wildlife.
From the denverpost.com
This is coming from a person who has his own personal celebrity chef on premise.
From the washingtontimes.com
It's another that the writers don't have anything clever to add to that premise.
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- A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
- Set forth beforehand, often as an explanation; "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"
- Precede: furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
- Take something as preexisting and given
- (premises) land and the buildings on it; "bread is baked on the premises"; "the were evicted from the premises"
- It is evident that a tacitly understood claim is that Socrates is a man. The fully expressed reasoning is thus: In this example, the first two independent clauses preceding the comma (namely, "all men are mortal" and "Socrates is a man") are the premises, while "Socrates is mortal" is the ...
- The premise of a film or screenplay is the fundamental concept that drives the plot.
- Imidacloprid is a neonicotinoid, which is a class of neuro-active insecticides modeled after nicotine. ...
- Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property. This usage arose from property owners finding the word in their title deeds, where it originally correctly meant "the aforementioned; what this document is about", from Latin prae-missus = "placed before".
