Proposition
[prɒpə'zɪʃ(ə)n] or [,prɑpə'zɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a task to be dealt with; 'securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition'.
(noun.) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false.
(noun.) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors).
(verb.) suggest sex to; 'She was propositioned by a stranger at the party'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
(n.) That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.
(n.) A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
(n.) A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.
(n.) A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.
(n.) That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
(n.) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Offer (of something to be considered), proffer, tender, overture, suggestion, PROPOSAL.[2]. Position, thesis, statement, declaration, dictum, doctrine.[3]. (Logic.) Period, complete sentence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Statement, affirmation, declaration, sentence
ANT:Misstatement, interjection, babel, jargon, sound, riddle, paradox
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Definition
n. a placing before: offer of terms: that which is proposed: the act of stating anything: that which is stated: (gram. and logic) a complete sentence or one which affirms or denies something: (math.) a theorem or problem to be demonstrated or solved.—adj. Proposi′tional pertaining to or of the nature of a proposition: considered as a proposition.
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Examples
- I received a prompt letter in reply decidedly disapproving my proposition, and urging that the lad should be allowed to accompany me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I shall go to Paris in my own carriage, and establish myself in my own lodgings, said I; and to this proposition Meyler was obliged to agree. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- That is the monstrous proposition which you are driven to assert, if you attempt to associate the disappearance of the Moonstone with Franklin Blake. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Consequently no proposition can be intelligible or consistent with regard to objects, which is not so with regard to perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid was regarded as one of the supreme triumphs of the human mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These propositions will be most readily understood by looking to our domestic races. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The truth of these propositions cannot, I think, be disputed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The company was soon swamped with propositions for sale of territorial rights and with other negotiations, and some of these were accompanied by the offer of very large sums of money. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then as now, the propositions brought to Edison ranged over every conceivable subject, but the years have taught him caution in grappling with them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Conceptions and propositions mutually imply and support one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He shook his head, and assented to all she proposed, though many of her propositions absolutely contradicted one another. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- His propositions should be made in explicit terms, so as to be easily understood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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