These are the meanings of the letters PREOPPOSITION when you unscramble them.
- Preposition (n.)
A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
- Preposition (n.)
A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or 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; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
- Proposition (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.
- Proposition (n.)
A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.
- Proposition (n.)
A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
- Proposition (n.)
That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
- Proposition (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.
- Proposition (n.)
The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
- Proposition (n.)
The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.