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Deduce

Definition: Deduce

Deduce

Verb

1. Reason by deduction; establish by deduction.

2. Conclude by reasoning; in logic.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deduce" was first used: 1410. (references)

Note: Deduce \De*duce"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deduced; present participle verb or noun Deducing.]. (references)


Synonyms: Deduce

Synonyms: deduct (v), derive (v), infer (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Deduce

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Judgment

Deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet, ween.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Verb: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Deduce

English words defined with "deduce": Deduced, Deducing, draw outeduce, elicit, Ergat, evoke, extractTo collect one's self, Traduct. (references)
Specialty definitions using "deduce": brochureware, Busy Beaverdomain calculusFaraday Rotation, ferrite core memory, formal reasoningreasoning strategytype assignment, type inference. (references)
Etymologies containing "deduce": Deductor. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Deduce" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (argue, collect, conclude, deduce, deduct, draw, educe, evolve, gather, induce, infer).

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Modern Usage: Deduce

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Beyond the fact that you are a brilliant Jewish physician who was born in Hungary and studied for a while in Paris, and that certain radical theories of yours have alienated the respectable medical community so that you have severed your connections with various hospitals and branches of the medical fraternity, beyond this I can deduce little (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer)

The better to deduce the truth with (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman)

For example, I can instantly deduce that when someone hears the name Paris in the same sentence with the word date, jaws will drop, confused looks will cover faces, words like 'how' and 'why' and 'Quick, Bob, get the children in the minivan because the world is obviously coming to an end (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Movie/TV Titles

You Say Deduce (1956)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Deduce

DomainTitle

Books

  • Three great teachers of our own time : being an attempt to deduce the spirit and purpose animating Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Deduce

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The law provides that only the Federation Supreme Court will carry out questioning of protected witnesses with defense counsel permitted to submit written questions; however, international observers note that it is often easy to deduce the identity of the protected witness. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Deduce

"Deduce" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.48% of the time. "Deduce" is used about 234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)82.48%19322,089
Lexical Verb (base form)17.52%4153,521
                    Total100.00%234N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Deduce

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

deduce

4

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2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Deduce

Language Translations for "deduce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vë prejardhje, nxjerr një përfundim. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تتبع منشأ, ‏إستفاد (avail, avail oneself of, benefit, benefit by, capitalize, conclude, improve, profit), ‏إستنتج (conclude, deduct, derive, draw, draw conclusions, educe, estimate, induce, infer, put two and two together, ratiocinate, understand), ‏إستدل (infer). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

правя извод (collect). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

推论 (Corollaries, Corollary, Deduced, Deducing). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dovozovat, usuzovat (conclude, reason, understand), odvodit (derive, extract). (various references)

   

Danish

  

slutte (abstract, gather, induce, infer). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

deduceren (abstract, gather), afleiden (abduce, abduct, abstract, derive, distract, divert, entertain, extract, gather, induce, infer), abstraheren (abstract, abstraction, gather). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

dedukti (abstract, gather). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نتیجه گرفتن (Conclude, Derive, Gather), کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Cut, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), تفریق کردن , استنباطکردن (Construe, Divine, Educe, Induct, Infer), دریافتن (Apprehend, Comprehend, Discover, Perceive, Realize, Understand). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tehdä johtopäätös (abstract, conclude, draw a conclusion, gather, induce, infer). (various references)

   

French

  

déduire (deduct). (various references)

   

German

  

folgern (abstract, conclude, gather, induce, infer, reason, to conclude, to deduce, to infer), ableiten (abstract, channel off, conduct, deflect, derivate, derive, differentiate, dissipate, divert, draw off, gather, to derivate, to dissipate, to divert, to drain, turn away). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνάγω (gather), συμπεραίνω (conclude, conjecture, infer, presume). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"ון (argue, discuss, govern, judge, litigate, punish, rule, sentence, talk over). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

levezet (deduct, to conduct, to deduce, to educe), leszármaztat (to deduce), következtet (conclude, draw conclusions, infer, to conclude, to conjecture, to deduce, to evolve, to infer, to judge, to reason). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengambil kesimpulan, menarik kesimpulan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dedurre (abstract, conclude, deduct, elicit, gather, induce, infer), concludere (abstract, break up, clinch, close, complete, conclude, do, end up, finalize, finish, gather, induce, infer, make, make a contract, put through, tie up, top off, wrap up). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

연역하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

tayrn ass, jannoo magh (content, define, determine, divine, make out, purvey, purveyance, satisfy, seek out, supply, think out, work out, work out as position), chaglym voish. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

utlede (derive), slutte (quit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

educeday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

inferir (abstract, below, collect, conclude, educe, follow, gather, imply, induce, infer), deduzir (abstract, articulate, collect, derive, educe, elicit, gather, imply, knock off, poke about, recoup, retrench), concluir (abstract, accomplish, close, complete, conclude, end, gather, imply, induce, reason, reckon, terminate). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

deduce (argue, collect, conclude, deduct, draw, educe, evolve, gather, induce, infer), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop), însuma (abstract, comprise, gather, number, total, totalize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выводить (bred, breed, educe, extricate, recall, show out, take out, type-out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

utvrditi poreklo, izvoditi zaključak (infer). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

deducir (conclude, count down, deduct, derive, gather, relieve), decudir (abstract, gather, induce, infer). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

härleda (derive, educe). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sonuç çıkarmak (conclude, educe, induce, infer, make inferences, reason), gelişimini izlemek, anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken, work out). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

утворювати (bark, frame, make), робити висновок (conclude, draw a conclusion, educe, elicit, gather, infer), виводити (take off, take out, withdraw), простежити (see about), походити (accrue, derive, descend, originate, stem). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Deduce

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

collecta, collectae, collectam, collecti, collectis, collecto, collectos, collectum, collectus, collegerimus, collegeris, collegerunt, collegi, collegissent, collegisset, collegisti, collegit, colleximus, collexistis, colligam, colligant, colligas, colligat, colligatis, colligatur, colligebant, colligebat, colligendas, colligendi, colligendum, colligens, colligent, colligentem, colligentes, colligentur, colligere, colligerent, colligeret, colligeris, colliges, colligesque, colliget, colligetur, colligimus, colligit, colligite, colligitur, colligo, colligunt, colliguntur, conclude, concludens, concludent, concluderet, concludes, concludi, concluditur, conclusae, concluserant, concluserat, concluserint, concluseris, concluserunt, conclusi, conclusis, conclusisset, conclusisti, conclusit, conclusus, conclususque, conligare, deducere, repeto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Deduce

Derivations

Words beginning with "deduce": deduced, deduces. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Deduce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aderdice, Dadouche, dedic, deduc, dedupe, Demdike, detice, deucex, deudsche, Didace, didicoi, Didouche, Duduc, duduce. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Deduce"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "deduce" (pronounced duduw"s)
4-u d uw" sintroduce, overproduce, produce, reduce, reintroduce, reproduce, seduce.
3-d uw" sDeuce, Duce, induce.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Deduce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deuced, educed.

Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-u"

-1 letter: ceded, deuce, educe.

-2 letters: cede, cued, deed, duce, dude.

-3 letters: cee, cud, cue, dee, dud, due, ecu.

-4 letters: de, ed.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-e-u"
 

+1 letter: cudweed, deduced, deduces, reduced, seduced.

 

+2 letters: bedunced, cudgeled, cudweeds, deciduae, decupled, decurved, deducted, deucedly, duckweed, educated, excluded, secluded, undecked.

 

+3 letters: beclouded, coendured, credendum, cudgelled, debauched, debouched, deciduate, decoupled, deducible, deductive, defocused, denounced, duckweeds, pedicured, peduncled, precluded, reinduced, scheduled, succeeded, undecided.

 

+4 letters: becudgeled, cuddlesome, decoloured, decoupaged, decussated, deductible, defocussed, destructed, documented, elucidated, fecundated, prejudiced, reeducated, reinducted, reproduced, secludedly, superceded, uncredited, undecadent, undeceived, undecideds, undeclared, underacted, undetected, undirected, uneducated, unrecorded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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