premise

local, inmueble

Edificio y terreno que lo rodea; en inglés suele usarse la forma plural premises.

En inglés sencillo: A building and the land around it, usually referred to in the plural.

• Smoking is forbidden on these premises.
• The company moved to larger premises last year.
• Please leave the premises before we close the gates.

Sinónimos: property

Expresiones frecuentes: business premise, commercial premise, private premise

premisa, supuesto

Idea que se acepta como verdadera y sirve de base para razonar o explicar algo.

En inglés sencillo: An idea you accept as true and use as the starting point for an argument or explanation.

• Your argument rests on a false premise.
• The basic premise is that people want to help.
• Do you accept the premise behind this theory?

Cómo se usa: on the premise that… (We planned the trip on the premise that everyone could swim.)

Sinónimos: assumption, proposition

Expresiones frecuentes: basic premise, false premise, premise of something, initial premise

presuponer, postular

Presentar una idea como punto de partida para seguir razonando.

En inglés sencillo: To state an idea as a starting point for further reasoning.

• Let me premise one point before we begin.
• The author premises that people act from self-interest.
• She premised her argument with a statement about human nature.

Cómo se usa: premise that… (Let us premise that the figures are accurate.)

Sinónimos: postulate, assume

Expresiones frecuentes: premise an argument, premise that something