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

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.

Crosswords: Deduce

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

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)

You Say Deduce (1956)

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

Books

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

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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)

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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)

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)

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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deuced, educed.

-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.

+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.