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PREMISS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does premiss mean? 

PREMISS (noun)
  The noun PREMISS has 1 sense:

1. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawnplay

  Familiarity information: PREMISS used as a noun is very rare.


PREMISS (verb)
  The verb PREMISS has 1 sense:

1. take something as preexisting and givenplay

  Familiarity information: PREMISS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PREMISS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

assumption; premise; premiss

Context example:

on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not play

Hypernyms ("premiss" is a kind of...):

posit; postulate ((logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "premiss"):

major premise; major premiss (the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion))

minor premise; minor premiss; subsumption (the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion))

thesis (an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument)

condition; precondition; stipulation (an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else)

scenario (a postulated sequence of possible events)

Derivation:

premiss (take something as preexisting and given)


PREMISS (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they premiss  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it premisses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: premissed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: premissed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: premissing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Take something as preexisting and given

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

premise; premiss

Hypernyms (to "premiss" is one way to...):

presuppose; suppose (take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

premiss (a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn)


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