postulate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they postulate | |
he / she / it postulates | |
past simple postulated | |
past participle postulated | |
-ing form postulating |
- postulate something | postulate that…
to suggest or accept that something is true so that it can be used as the basis for a theory, etc. synonym posit假定;假设 Extra ExamplesTopics Suggestions and advicec2This theory was first postulated in 1848. 这一理论最初是在1848年提出的。 Some linguists have postulated a change in English pronunciation from around 1600. 一些语言学家假定大约从1600年开始英语发音出现了变化。 She postulates that the interests of girls from some ethnic minorities have largely been ignored. 她认为一些少数民族女孩的利益在很大程度上被忽视了。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPostulate is used with these nouns as the object:- existence
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin postulat- ‘asked’, from the verb postulare.