Word Meanings - DERIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. Syn. -- To trace; deduce; infer. (more info) 1. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute

Additional info about word: DERIVE

To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. Syn. -- To trace; deduce; infer. (more info) 1. 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. For fear it choke up the pits . . . they derive it by other drains. Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor. 2. To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from. 3. To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon. From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases. Arbuthnot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DERIVE)

• filler
• Gather
• collect
• conclude
• derive
• deduce
• argue
• Partake
• Share
• participate
• accept
• Reap
• obtain
• receive
• get
• acquire
• realize
• gain
• Trace
• Explore
• track
• follow
• thread
• investigate
• delineate
• pursue

Related words: (words related to DERIVE)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• ACCEPT
  To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• SHAREBEAM
  The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• ACCEPTOR
  One who accepts; specifically ,
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• ACQUIRE
  To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• FILLER
  One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• MISRECEIVE
  To receive wrongly.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.