Word Meanings - DEDUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To lead forth or out. A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall. 2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.

Additional info about word: DEDUCT

Etym: 1. To lead forth or out. A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall. 2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress. Pope. Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris. 3. To reduce; to diminish. "Do not deduct it to days." Massinger.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEDUCT)

• Subtract
• Withdraw
• remove
• deduct
• take

Related words: (words related to DEDUCT)

• DEDUCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
• DEDUCTIVELY
  By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBTRACTIVE
  Having the negative sign, or sign minus. (more info) 1. Tending, or having power, to subtract.
• SUBTRACTION
  The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• WITHDRAWING-ROOM
  A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• DEDUCT
  Etym: 1. To lead forth or out. A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall. 2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.
• SUBTRACT
  To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4. (more info) beneath, withdraw, remove; sub under + trahere to draw. See Trace, v.
• SUBTRACTER
  1. One who subtracts. 2. The subtrahend.
• DEDUCTIBLE
  1. Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning. 2. Deducible; consequential.
• DEDUCTION
  1. Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely. 2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as,
• DEDUCTOR
  The pilot whale or blackfish.
• WITHDRAWMENT
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawal. W. Belsham.