Derive

Definitions: Derive

Derive

Verb

1. Reason by deduction; establish by deduction.

2. Obtain: "derive pleasure from one's garden".

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

4. Develop or evolve, esp. from a latent or potential state.

5. Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins".

Date "derive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Derive (2 syl.) means "back to its channel or source" (Latin, de rivo). The Latin rivus (a river) does not mean the stream or current, but the source whence it flows, or the channel through which it runs. As Ulpian says, "Fons sive locus per longitudinem depressus, quo aqua decurrat." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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In mathematics, to derive a statement is to use logic, starting from known facts, or at the very beginning, from axioms, to decide whether the statement is true or false.

Formally, if you have a set of axioms A, then a set of statements B are all said to be derived if they follow logically from statements in A. And further, a set of statements C are said to be derived if they follow from statements in A and B.

Synonyms: Derive

Synonyms: come (v), deduce (v), deduct (v), descend (v), educe (v), gain (v), infer (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Acquisition	Find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest.
Attribution	Verb: attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse.
Cause	Conduce to; (tend to); contribute; have a hand in the pie, have a finger in the pie; determine, decide, turn the scale; have a common origin; derive its origin; (effect).
Effect	Verb: be the effect of; Noun: be due to,be owing to; originate in, originate from; rise -, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from, emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from, issue from, flow from,result from, follow from, derive its origin from, accrue from; come to, come of, come out of; depend upon, hang upon, hinge upon, turn upon.
Judgment	Deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet, ween.
Pleasure	Be pleased; with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure; n. from; take pleasure; n. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over; (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of.
Receipt	Verb: receive; take money; draw from, derive from; acquire; take.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Transcontinental a la derive (1975)
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Domain	Title
Books	College Algebra Laboratories Using Derive (reference) Derive (reference) Differential Equations With Derive (reference) Discovering Calculus With Derive (reference) Insights Into Calculus Using Derive (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sounding machine devised by Robert Hooke Drop glass ball with weight over side Ball disengages when weight hits bottom Known rate of descent and ascent - can then derive depth Never worked right.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Figure 36. Ericsson pneumatic sounder, invented in 1835 by John Ericsson of USS MONITOR fame. This was among the first instruments to use the principle of pressure needed to compress air a given amount to derive the depth of water.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
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Author	Quotation
Aesop	The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Albert Einstein	Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.
Blaise Pascal	All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
E. M. Cioran	We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
Victor Hugo	It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man. (Second Treatise of Government)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	If there is to be a fraternal association of the kind I have described, with all the extra strength and security which both our countries can derive from it, let us make sure that that great fact is known to the world, and that it plays its part in steadying and stabilizing the foundations of peace. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
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Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	We shall try to understand them fully during these few days so that we may derive from the understanding of them a lasting benefit to our souls.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The vast majority of deaf adults with cochlear implants derive substantial benefit when the implant is used in conjunction with speech reading. (references)
		We, the undersigned members of the panel, have different interpretations of and derive different conclusions from the available data. We state those differences below. (references)
		Even those who currently meet these daily standards may derive additional health and fitness benefits by becoming more physically active or including more vigorous activity. (references)
Business		CONATEL studied models utilized in the opening of countries such as Chile, England, Argentina and Mexico in order to derive the positive lessons learned and mold them to the Venezuelan experience with the assistance of International Telecommunications Union advisers, as well as a U.S. Trade Development Agency sponsored U.S. technical Assistant. (references)
Economic History	Lebanon	Many Lebanese still derive their living from agriculture. (references)
	Swaziland	The most important was Mswati II, from whom the Swazis derive their name. (references)
	Russia	Most of the roughly 150 million Russians derive from the Eastern Slavic family of peoples, whose original homeland was probably present-day Poland. (references)
Political Economy	Guatemala	An estimated 15 percent of the violations derive from the obstruction of justice, particularly by police officers whose only punishment was to be rotated away from assignments where there were problems. (references)
	Ecuador	In addition, the U.S. has implemented initiatives such as Plan Colombia and the Andean Region Initiative (ARI) to advance Colombian and regional anti-drug efforts, and to promote better security, which at present is compromised by terrorist groups that mostly derive from Colombia but have been encroaching onto Ecuadorian terrain. (references)
Political Rights	Israel and the occupied territories	There are 11 Arabs and 2 Druze in the Knesset; most represent parties that derive their support largely or entirely from the Arab community. (references)
Travel	Senegal	Business practices, accounting methods and legal procedures derive from the French system. (references)
Women	Dominican Republic	The Domestic Violence Law prohibits acting as an intermediary in a transaction of prostitution, and the Government has used the law to prosecute third parties that derive profit from prostitution. (references)
Worker Rights	Dominican Republic	The law also prohibits acting as an intermediary in a transaction of prostitution, and the Government has used this law to prosecute third parties that derive profit from prostitution. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Laura Schlessinger	I'm not here to help anybody feel better per se. I'm here to help people get better. When they get better and do better, they will feel better. I derive joy from being helpful. It's as simple as that.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	You will derive further information from his dispatches, which will be laid before you.
James Monroe	1817-1825	The nation should therefore derive the profit proceeding from the continual rise in their value.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	So thinking, I derive the greatest satisfaction from the conviction that thus much at least has been secured upon this important and embarrassing subject.
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	From one of them we derive our very language and from many of them much of the genius of our institutions.
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"Derive" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 55.46% of the time. "Derive" is used about 933 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	55.46%	517	11,748
Lexical Verb (base form)	44.43%	415	13,635
Noun (proper)	0.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	933	N/A

Expressions using "derive": derive advantage from smth ♦ derive comfort from smth. ♦ derive from ♦ derive its origin. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "derive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		aftap (bottle, drain), afstam (accrue, come, originate, result). (various references)

Albanian		degëzoj (bifurcate, ramify), trashëgoj (come into, inherit, take, take possession of), rrjedh (accrue, arise, come, come from, course, descend, dote, escape, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle), përftoj, nxjerr (belch, conclude, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), kam prejardhje (emanate, stem), buron (begin, descend, emanate, flow out, gush, proceed, spring, start, stem). (various references)

Arabic		‏نشأ من (originate from smth.), ‏إستمد, ‏إستنتج (conclude, deduce, deduct, draw, draw conclusions, educe, estimate, induce, infer, put two and two together, ratiocinate, understand), ‏إشتق, ‏أتى (came, come). (various references)

Bulgarian		установявам произход, разклонявам (offset, ramify), отвеждам (carry, carry off, get away, lead, lead off, offset, pipe, sluice, take, take off, walk away), обяснявам произход, наследявам (heir, inherit, succeed), произхождам (accrue, come from, descend, emanate, evolve, issue, spring, stem, take off), получавам (gain, get, have, obtain, receive, touch, turn), извличам (distil, drag out, draw, educe, elicit, excerpt, exhaust, extract, milk, recover). (various references)

Chinese		导出 (Derived, Deriving). (various references)

Czech		odvozovat (infer), odvodit (deduce, extract), mít (experience, Harbor, harbour, have, keep, possess, suffer, to have), èerpat (draw, pump). (various references)

Danish		afstamme (accrue, come, originate, result). (various references)

Dutch		aftappen (bottle, discharge, drain, draining of the furnace, eduction, emptying, oil change, tap, tapping, to cast, to pour, to tap, to teem). (various references)

Esperanto		deveni (come, originate, result), derivi. (various references)

Faeroese		vera ættaður frá (accrue, come, originate, result), koma av (accrue, come, originate, result). (various references)

Farsi		مشتق شدن (Branch), نتیجه گرفتن (Conclude, Deduce, Gather), ناشی شدن از (Proceed, Rise), استنتاج کردن (Conclude, Evolve, Induce, Infer, Subsume). (various references)

Finnish		johtaa (conduct, direct, guide, head, lead, lead the way, manage, to infer). (various references)

French		provenir, dériver (deflect, to derive). (various references)

Frisian		ôftaapje (bottle, drain), ôfstamje (accrue, come, originate, result), ôfskaaie (accrue, come, originate, result), ôfliede (abduce, abduct, divert). (various references)

German		ableiten (abstract, channel off, conduct, deduce, deflect, derivate, differentiate, dissipate, divert, draw off, gather, to derivate, to derive, to dissipate, to divert, to drain, turn away), herleiten. (various references)

Greek		αντλώ (pump, quarry). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"פיק (bring out, elicit, extract, issue, output, send forth), ל�"�'זר (be decided, be decreed, be derived), ל� בוע (arise, bubble, emanate, flow, gush forth, issue, originate, pour forth, result, spout forth, stem, well). (various references)

Hungarian		származtat (etymologize, to derive). (various references)

Italian		derivare (accrue, arise, come, descend, divert, drift, ensue, follow, issue, originate, originate from, proceed, result, rise, shunt, spring, stem, to derive), discendere (accrue, come, come down, descend, drop, fall, go down, originate, result, slope down, to descend). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		来る (to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to be due to, to be forthcoming, to be next, to become, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to get, to grow, to set in), 導き出す (to derive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くる (hunchback, rickets, to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to become, to bore, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to excavate, to get, to gouge, to grow, to hollow out, to reel, to scoop out, to set in, to wind), みちびき� す (to derive). (various references)

Korean		파생하십시�". (various references)

Manx		goaill voish (expropriate, expropriation), goaill ass. (various references)

Norwegian		utlede (deduce), avlede (distract, divert). (various references)

Pig Latin		eriveday

Portuguese		provir (accrue, come, issue, originate, result, To-be), derivar (accrue, branch, drift, originate, result, to shunt). (various references)

Romanian		dobândi (achieve, acquire, attain, come by, come into, earn, find, gain, get, obtain, procure, secure, win), deriva (divert), primi (accept, draw, embrace, entertain, get, have, let in, receive, take, take in), cãpãta (acquire, assume, coax, come by, come in for, come into, contract, earn, find, get, make, obtain, pick up, purchase, receive, take on). (various references)

Russian		наследовать (heir, inherit, succeed), происходить (accrue, arise, be, befall, come, come about, come from, descend, emanate, flow from, hap, happen, intervene, issue, occur, occurred, originate, take place), получать (acquire, charge back, gain, get, got, got [], gotten, have, make, obtain, receive, relish, score a, score an, take), извлекать (abstract, elicit, extract, extracted, extracting, retrieve, uncompress, withdraw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izvesti (bring out, embroider, export, perform, present, realize, stage, take out). (various references)

Spanish		derivar (shunt, to derive, to shunt), descender (accrue, come, descend, fall, fall away, get off, go down, like, originate, ramp, result, sink, to declass, to descend). (various references)

Swedish		härstamma (accrue, come, descend, originate, result, to descend), härleda (deduce, educe, to derive). (various references)

Thai		ไ�"้รับจาก (obtain from). (various references)

Turkish		türetmek (reproduce), sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate smb. with, arm, assure, carry, cater, cater for, come in, enlist, ensure, extract, fend for, find, fix, fix up, furnish, get out of, implement, keep, lay in, lay on, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, suck, supply, yield), kaynaklanmak (arise, be based on, be derived from, have it's source in, originate, root in, spring, start, take it's source from), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukranian		успадкувати, визначати походження, одержувати (acquire, attain, gain, get, obtain, pull, receive, resume), брати початок (originate, run back, spring, take off), простежувати виникнення, походити (accrue, deduce, descend, originate, stem). (various references)

Welsh		tarddu (be derived, spring, sprout). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	deducere, derivare, tracta, traham, trahas, trahat, trahe, trahebant, trahebat, trahemus, trahens, trahentes, trahentium, trahere, trahi, trahitis, trahitur, trahunt, trahuntur, traxerunt, traxit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "derive": derived, deriver, derivers, derives. (additional references)
	Words ending with "derive": coderive. (additional references)
	Words containing "derive": coderived, coderives. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Derive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aderdice, daiv, darve, Darvi, dayrie, decive, Deivio, delive, depive, deri, derile, Derilei, derime, derine, deriv, derivat, deriven, derpive, derrive, dersive, dervice, dervide, dervive, devive, dreave, dreive, Durava, durite, Edgiva, erive, redive, rerivet. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "derive" (pronounced derī"v)
3	-er ī" v	arrive.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: reived.
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-r-v"
	-1 letter: diver, drive, eider, reive, rived.
	-2 letters: deer, dere, dire, dive, dree, eide, ever, ired, rede, reed, ride, rive, veer, vide, vied, vier.
	-3 letters: dee, dev, die, ere, eve, ire, red, ree, rei, rev, rid, vee, vie.
	-4 letters: de, ed, er, id, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-r-v"
	+1 letter: deliver, deprive, derived, deriver, derives, deviser, diverge, diverse, grieved, predive, redrive, relived, reviled, revised, revived, riveted.
	+2 letters: bedrivel, coderive, creviced, deceiver, decemvir, delivers, delivery, deprived, depriver, deprives, derisive, derivate, derivers, desilver, devisers, disserve, dissever, diverged, diverges, diverted, diverter, divorcee, driveled, driveler, evildoer, innerved, inverted, liveried, overedit, overidle, override, overside, overwide, prevised, quivered, received, redivide, redriven, redrives, reinvade, relieved, reviewed, revoiced, riverbed, rivetted, scrieved, serviced, shivered, shrieved, silvered, slivered, verditer, verified.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 72 69 76 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)

01000100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0072 0069 0076 0065

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

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

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
derive	191	derive manual	3
derive 5	40	5 derive download	3
derive 5.0	12	5 derive retail	3
derive window	10	5.05 derive	3
derive download window	9	derive español manual	3
derive download	7	derive software	3
5 derive manual	6	5 derive download en español	2
5 derive full	5	derive download free	2
5.06 derive	4	5.05 derive download	2
derive technology	4	continent derive des la	2
		derive en programacion	2
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Derive

Definitions: Derive

Derive

Verb

Specialty Definitions: Derive

Specialty Definition: Derive

Synonyms: Derive

Synonyms within Context: Derive

Acquisition

Attribution

Cause

Effect

Judgment

Pleasure

Receipt

Crosswords: Derive

Modern Usage: Derive

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Derive

Books

Photo Album: Derive

Familiar Quotations: Derive

Aesop

Albert Einstein

Blaise Pascal

E. M. Cioran

Victor Hugo

Historic Usage: Derive

John Locke

Winston S. Churchill

Use in Literature: Derive

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Non-Fiction Usage: Derive

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Derive

Laura Schlessinger

Speeches: Derive

John Adams

James Monroe

Andrew Jackson

Herbert C. Hoover

Usage Frequency: Derive

Expressions: Derive

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Derive

derive en programacion

Modern Translations: Derive

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