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premise as in: the premise of the argument
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Her argument rests on two premises.
premises = things assumed to be true and upon which other things are based
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Her logic is fine except that it assumes a false premise.premise = something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based
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The premise of the message was that Shawn had been reborn, spiritually cleansed. (source)
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She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in order to keep the peace would inevitably end up subservient to them in everything. (source)premise = something believed and upon which other things are based
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Though the languages in which it was told varied as widely as the terrain he covered--ranging from Afrikaans to Hindi to Japanese to Welsh--and the details of the story often changed, its basic premise was the same: A solitary man blessed with fear some physical abilities and armed with a curious assemblage of weaponry crossed continents on a mysterious quest that led him to headwear merchants the world over-whether a peddler of knitted caps operating from a tent in a North African… (source)premise = something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based
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And where Nina would not hesitate to cut someone off in mid-assertion in order to make a contrary point and then declare the matter decided once and for all, Sofia would listen so attentively and with such a sympathetic smile that her interlocutor, having been given free rein to express his views at considerable length, often found his voice petering out as he began to question his own premises…. (source)premises = assumptions upon which ideas are based
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The absolutist approach to fighting drugs proceeds on the premise that experimentation equals addiction. (source)premise = assumption (used to logically build an argument)
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That is, accepting the premise that Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have successfully got away with murder in their time. (source)premise = something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based
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Then, friend John, am I to take it that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion be a blank? (source)
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Joust was a classic '80s arcade game with a strange premise.† (source)
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But an invasion would violate the premise.† (source)
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Existence is the premise for everything else.† (source)
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All the book titles suggested the same premise Langdon had just proposed.† (source)
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The throbbing in his legs was more insistent; the next time the clock bonged she would come, but he was almost afraid she would read his thoughts on his face, like the bare premise of a story too gruesome to write.† (source)
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premise as in: the premise of the story
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The premise of the series is that two very different people are forced to be roommates.
premise = underlying situation
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The premise of the show is that she awakens with amnesia and doesn't know if she is in the country legally.premise = context (underlying situation)
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The premise was not so far removed from the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland idea of "Let's put on a show," only it was updated for the age of computer graphics, 3-D animation and the construction of what we called "immersive (helmet-based) interactive virtual reality worlds." (source)premise = the underlying situation
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The premise is challenging and conceptual, but fascinating. (source)premise = the underlying situation upon which a show was based
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The premise of the movie about us is that we spontaneously combust if we don't talk every six hours. (source)premise = something that provides the context for a show
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[Of an early Sesame Street cartoon episode] The problem, at root, is with the premise of the show — the essential joke that Big Bird doesn't want to be known as a big bird. That's the kind of wordplay that a preschooler simply doesn't understand. (source)premise = the underlying situation
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The premise of the movie is that a band of vampires live in New York and...†premise = context (underlying situation)
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premise as in: she premised her comments by...
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She premised her remarks by thanking the executive committee for their work.
premised = provided a preface or introduction
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She will premise her remarks by acknowledging the committee's work.premise = preface or introduce
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Everything that she, Baby Kochamma, had done, had been premised on one assumption.† (source)premised = provided a preface or introduction
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Little need be premised about Tibby.† (source)
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But apart from temporary aberration, the doctor diagnosed mania, which premised, in his words, to lead to complete insanity in the future.† (source)premised = provided a preface or introduction
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The naturalist raised his tablets to the heavens, and disposed himself to read as well as he could, by the dim light they yet shed upon the plain; premising with saying— "Listen, girl, and you shall hear, with what a treasure it has been my happy lot to enrich the pages of natural history!"† (source)premising = providing a preface or introduction
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But here be it premised, that owing to the unwearied activity with which of late they have been hunted over all four oceans, the Sperm Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached companies, as in former times, are now frequently met with in extensive herds, sometimes embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost seem as if numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and covenant for mutual assistance and protection.† (source)premised = provided a preface or introduction
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'After premising thus much, it would be a work of supererogation to add, that dust and ashes are for ever scattered 'On 'The 'Head 'Of 'WILKINS MICAWBER.'† (source)premising = providing a preface or introduction
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For it must be premised that while the Major was lying ill at Madras, having made such prodigious haste to go thither, the gallant —th, which had passed many years abroad, which after its return from the West Indies had been baulked of its stay at home by the Waterloo campaign, and had been ordered from Flanders to India, had received orders home; and the Major might have accompanied his comrades, had he chosen to wait for their arrival at Madras.† (source)premised = provided a preface or introduction
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'Now,' said Jeremiah; 'premising that I'm not going to stand between you two, will you let me ask (as I have been called in, and made a third) what is all this about?'† (source)premising = providing a preface or introduction
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And, thirdly, old Arthur premised that the girl was a delicate and beautiful creature, and that he had really a hankering to have her for his wife.† (source)premised = provided a preface or introduction
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Allow me to say that I fully defer to the reasonable character of that inquiry, and proceed to develop it; premising that it is not an object of a pecuniary nature.† (source)premising = providing a preface or introduction
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I have already premised that, after having examined the constitution of the township and the county of New England in detail, I should take a general view of the remainder of the Union.† (source)premised = provided a preface or introduction
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Premising this, I proceed to lay it down as a rule, that one man of discernment is better fitted to analyze and estimate the peculiar qualities adapted to particular offices, than a body of men of equal or perhaps even of superior discernment.† (source)Premising = providing a preface or introduction
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premises as in: located on the premises
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She was injured on the premises of the defendant.
premises = property
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At what time did the officer reach the premises?
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Whatever it was, Mamer dropped the potato back on the pile and dragged Rudy from his premises. (source)premises = place (land and buildings together)
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If I tried, I would be removed from the premises. (source)premises = place currently occupied
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—the policeman was leaving the premises. (source)premises = property (land and buildings together)
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I could tell she had repeated those opening lines a thousand times, that she was saying them the exact way she'd heard them coming from the lips of some old woman, who'd heard them from the lips of an even older one, the way they came out like a song, with rhythms that rocked us to and fro till we had left the premises and were, ourselves, on the islands of Charleston looking for rescue. (source)premises = place currently occupied
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There was no mention of two suspicious peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the premises, or a flashlight, or a silver cross on a chain. (source)premises = property
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Next to it was another sign which declared that it was a violation of the Texas Penal Code to bring guns, explosives, weapons, drugs, or alcohol onto the premises. (source)premises = property (land and buildings together)
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Shortly afterward the mufti went to the woman who owned the school premises and said, "Ziauddin is running a haram school in your building and bringing shame on the mohalla [neighborhood]." (source)premises = property
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An initial search of the hotel's premises proved fruitless, and no one who has been questioned has admitted to seeing him since last night. (source)
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Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson, had Miss Maudie deigned to permit a geranium on her premises. (source)premises = land
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Though the people who work there are not on the premises after hours, any sound we make might travel through the walls. (source)premises = property
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But it didn't matter much, because they was still on the premises somewheres. (source)
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With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by the fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings. (source)
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