"postulating" meaning in English

See postulating in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: postulatings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} postulating (plural postulatings)
  1. A postulation.
    Sense id: en-postulating-en-noun-H6~ngJ5s

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} postulating
  1. present participle and gerund of postulate Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: postulate
    Sense id: en-postulating-en-verb-YB1FXExp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for postulating meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "postulating",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "postulate"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of postulate"
      ],
      "id": "en-postulating-en-verb-YB1FXExp",
      "links": [
        [
          "postulate",
          "postulate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "postulating"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "postulatings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "postulating (plural postulatings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, James Burnham, Philip Ellis Wheelwright, The Symposium, page 160",
          "text": "[…] this is that \"final demand\" to which the experimentalist feels himself forced by the whole trend of history, of a history whose steps he has followed one by one in all his previous postulatings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A postulation."
      ],
      "id": "en-postulating-en-noun-H6~ngJ5s",
      "links": [
        [
          "postulation",
          "postulation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "postulating"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "postulating",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "postulate"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of postulate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "postulate",
          "postulate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "postulating"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "postulatings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "postulating (plural postulatings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, James Burnham, Philip Ellis Wheelwright, The Symposium, page 160",
          "text": "[…] this is that \"final demand\" to which the experimentalist feels himself forced by the whole trend of history, of a history whose steps he has followed one by one in all his previous postulatings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A postulation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "postulation",
          "postulation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "postulating"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.