All lemmata synonyms

noun lemmata

• theory — a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
• proposition — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
• conjecture — A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
• inference — the act or process of inferring.
• thesis — a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections: He vigorously defended his thesis on the causes of war.
• guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
• supposition — the act of supposing.
• assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
• rationale — the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.
• theorem — Mathematics. a theoretical proposition, statement, or formula embodying something to be proved from other propositions or formulas.
• premise — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
• interpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
• axiom — An axiom is a statement or idea which people accept as being true.
• conclusion — When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts.
• description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
• headline — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
• label — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
• caption — A caption is the words printed underneath a picture or cartoon which explain what it is about.
• rubric — a title, heading, direction, or the like, in a manuscript, book, statute, etc., written or printed in red or otherwise distinguished from the rest of the text.
• legend — a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.
• lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
• descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
• demonstration — A demonstration is a march or gathering which people take part in to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
• ground — the act of grinding.
• layout — an arrangement or plan: We objected to the layout of the house.
• basis — If something is done on a particular basis, it is done according to that method, system, or principle.
• system — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
• postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
• scheme — a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
• foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
• attribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
• belief — Belief is a feeling of certainty that something exists, is true, or is good.
• assignment — An assignment is a task or piece of work that you are given to do, especially as part of your job or studies.
• philosophy — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
• reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• plan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
• data — You can refer to information as data, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
• proposal — the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance.
• condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
• antecedent — An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.
• term — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
• surmise — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
• derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
• presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
• deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
• principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
• suggestion — the act of suggesting.
• position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
• speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
• shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.