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Abduce

Definition: Abduce

Abduce

Verb

1. Advance evidence for.

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

Note: Abduce \Ab*duce"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Abduced; present participle verb or noun Abducing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Abduce

Synonyms: adduce (v), cite (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Abduce

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

Recession

Verb: repel, push from, drive apart, drive from; chase, dispel; retrude; abduce, abduct; send away; repulse.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Abduce

English words defined with "abduce": Abduced, Abducing. (references)

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Modern Translations: Abduce

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

Afrikaan

  

afwend (turn away), afvoer (abduct, abduction, carrying, carrying off, discharge, divert). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afwenden (turn away), afleiden (abduct, abstract, deduce, derive, distract, divert, entertain, extract, gather, induce, infer, to derive), wegvoeren (abduct, divert), wegleiden (abduct, divert), laten afvloeien (abduct, divert), keren (halt, stop, to turn, turn, turn around, turn away, turn round, turning, turn-over). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ôfliede (abduct, derive, divert), ôfkeare (turn away), ôffiere (abduct, divert). (various references)

   

German

  

wegbringen (abduct, bring away, bring off, dispense with, divert, do away with, get away, get off, get rid of, lead away, remove), fortführen (abduct, continue, divert, go on, proceed with), entfuehren (abducting, abducts). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל×"טות (divert, heel, slant, steer, tilt), ל×"רחיק (alienate, dismiss, distance, keep afar, remove, sequester, stave off, turn away, warn off). (various references)

   

Italian

  

addurre (adduce, to assert, to bring forward a proof, to plea, to pretend, to put up a plea, urge). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abduceay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

separar, desviar. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apartar (alienate, allure, avert, deviate, distract, divert, divide, draw aside, draw away, draw off, fob, head off, hold off, keep apart, look away, lure away, move aside, move away, move over, push away, refract, separate, set aside, shut off, stave off, take away, throw aside, to deviate, turn aside, turn away), abducir, volver (call back, come back, cut back, get back, get in, go back, hark back, put back, return, ride back, throw back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning), desviar (abduct, aberrate, deflect, deviate, dissuade, divert, draw off, head off, look away, Parry, put off, switch off, to divert, turn around, turn aside, ward off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Abduce

Derivations

Words beginning with "abduce": abduced, abducens, abducent, abducentes, abduces. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Abduce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: cubed, daube.

-2 letters: abed, aced, bade, baud, bead, beau, bedu, cade, cube, cued, dace, daub, duce.

-3 letters: ace, bad, bed, bud, cab, cad, cub, cud, cue, dab, deb, dub, due, eau, ecu.

-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, ba, be, de, ed.

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

+1 letter: abduced, abduces, cudbear, debauch.

 

+2 letters: abducens, abducent, abducted, abductee, barleduc, cudbears, dumbcane, educable, unbacked, unbraced.

 

+3 letters: abductees, abundance, ambuscade, barbecued, barleducs, buckramed, debauched, debauchee, debaucher, debauches, dumbcanes, educables, incubated, rudbeckia, subdeacon.

 

+4 letters: abducentes, abductores, abundances, ambuscaded, ambuscader, ambuscades, backhauled, bifurcated, bivouacked, breadcrumb, carbuncled, carbureted, carburised, carburized, clubhauled, debauchees, debauchers, debauchery, debauching, excludable, humpbacked, includable, ineducable, lubricated, obduracies, obfuscated, parbuckled, rubricated, rudbeckias, subclassed, subcordate, subdeacons, subdialect, subtracted, unbalanced, unbleached, unbranched, uneducable.

 

+5 letters: ambuscaders, binucleated, breadcrumbs, buccaneered, bushwhacked, candelabrum, carburetted, counterbade, curveballed, decarburize, discussable, disturbance, educability, elucubrated, hunchbacked, outbalanced, subacidness, subdialects, thumbtacked, umbilicated, unbracketed, undanceable, undecidable, unscrambled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Abduce


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 62 64 75 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    -..    ..-    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100010 01100100 01110101 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#98 &#100 &#117 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0062 0064 0075 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

356870876971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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