Derive
[dɪ'raɪv]
Definition
(verb.) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state.
(verb.) come from; 'The present name derives from an older form'.
(verb.) obtain; 'derive pleasure from one's garden'.
(verb.) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; 'She was descended from an old Italian noble family'; 'he comes from humble origins'.
Edited by Georgina--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.
(v. t.) To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
(v. t.) To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
(v. t.) To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
(v. i.) To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
Checker: Sinclair
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Draw, receive, obtain, get.[2]. Deduce, trace.
Typed by Ann
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Deduce, trace, follow, track, draw, resolve
ANT:Misdeduce, misattribute, mistrace
Typed by Enid
Definition
v.t. to draw from as water from a river; to take or receive from a source or origin: to infer: (ety.) to trace a word to its root.—adj. Derīv′able.—adv. Derīv′ably.—adj. Der′ivate derived.—n. a derivative.—n. Derivā′tion act of deriving: a drawing off or from: the tracing of a word to its original root: that which is derived: descent or evolution of man or animals.—adj. Derivā′tional.—n. Derivā′tionist.—adj. Deriv′ative derived or taken from something else: not radical or original.—n. that which is derived: a word formed from another word.—adv. Deriv′atively.
Typist: Mag
Examples
- This principle we derive from experience, and is the source of most of our philosophical reasonings. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Then from whence, my friends, in a human point of view, do we derive the strength that is necessary to our limbs? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From these two traits we derive our standard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The French, in the beginning of the last war, did not derive so much advantage from this expedient as to compensate the loss of the fashion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The sovereign, like, any other owner of stock, may derive a revenue from it, either by employing it himself, or by lending it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And it means nothing to thee to be hunted then like a beast after this thing from which we derive no profit? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A fit of the gout produces a long train of passions, as grief, hope, fear; but is not derived immediately from any affection or idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The whole system, therefore, is entirely incomprehensible, and yet is derived from principles as natural as any of these above-explained. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- During the convalescence of animals, great benefit is derived from almost any change in their habits of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The trade itself has probably derived its name from it, the people of such countries being the carriers to other countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have always thought that Machiavelli derives his bad name from a too transparent honesty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equal, it is supposed, upon any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is in the older and more characteristic English tradition from which the Declaration of Independence derives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is the first act he notices, and he clearly derives pleasure from it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This explanation derives a certain plausibility from the circumstance that 8000 is the ancient number of the Spartan citizens (Herod. Plato. The Republic.
- Whoever derives his revenue from a fund which is his own, must draw it either from his labour, from his stock, or from his land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I asked, terrified at the unexpected sound, and incapable now of deriving from any occurrence a hope of aid. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Here Bella, deriving no comfort from her charming bonnet and her elegant dress, burst into tears. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Fanny's spirits lived on it half the morning, deriving some accession of pleasure from its writer being himself to go away. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Instances of people living by one employment, and, at the same time, deriving some little advantage from another, occur chiefly in pour countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She was quite single and by herself, deriving from nobody. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To be deriving support from the commendations of Mrs. Fraser! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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