DERIVE
\dɪɹˈa͡ɪv], \dɪɹˈaɪv], \d_ɪ_ɹ_ˈaɪ_v]\
Definitions of DERIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden"
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develop or evolve, especially from a latent or potential state
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
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To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
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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.
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To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; - followed by from.
By Oddity Software
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To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
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To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
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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.
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To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; - followed by from.
By Noah Webster.
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To draw from, as water from a river: to take or receive from a source or origin: to infer: (stym.) to trace a word to its root.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
