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Definition of Derive

1. Verb. Reason by deduction; establish by deduction.

2. Verb. Obtain. "Derive pleasure from one's garden"

3. Verb. Come from. "The present name derives from an older form"

4. Verb. Develop or evolve from a latent or potential state.

5. Verb. Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example. "He comes from humble origins"

Definition of Derive

1. 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.

2. v. i. To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.

Definition of Derive

1. Verb. (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). ¹

4. Verb. (transitive chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To originate or stem (from). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Derive

1. to obtain or receive from a source [v -RIVED, -RIVING, -RIVES]

Medical Definition of Derive

1. 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 [water] choke up the pits . . . They [the workman] 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) 4. To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. Synonym: To trace, deduce, infer. Origin: F. Deriver, L. Derivare; de- + rivus stream, brook. See Rival. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Derive

derivative instrument derivative work derivative works derivatively derivativeness derivatives derivatives market derivatives markets derivativity derivatization

derivatizations derivatize derivatized derivatizes derivatizing derive (current term) derived derived function derived group derived groups

derived protein derived subgroup derived subgroups derived unit derivedness derivednesses derivement derivements deriver derivers

Literary usage of Derive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
"“So, too, you may say, that things which are known derive from the good not only their quality of being known, but also their being and essence, ..."

2. The Philosophical Review by Sage School of Philosophy, Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Jacob Gould Schurman (1897)
"Hence the conclusion follows that " if it is an error to attempt to derive the existence of the world, it must be equally mistaken to derive the interaction ..."

3. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Hume has to derive from 'impressions' the objects which Locke took for granted. conformity or non-conformity of any action ' to one or other of the above ..."

4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"We derive from it something of the same pleasure which we feel in contemplating a terrible wild beast who cannot get near enough to hurt us." XIII. ..."

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