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Definitions: Educe |
EduceVerb1. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant". 2. Develop or evolve, esp. from a latent or potential state. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "educe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Note: Educe \E*duce"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Educed; present participle verb or noun Educing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: EduceSynonyms: derive (v), draw out (v), elicit (v), evoke (v), extract (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discovery | Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter. |
Extraction | Remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate; (eject); eviscerate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Educe |
| English words defined with "educe": Educed, Educing. (references) |
| "Educe" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Educe" is used about 3 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 (base form) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "educe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, 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), dedukoj, bëj përfundim. (various references) | |
Arabic | إستنتج (conclude, deduce, deduct, derive, draw, draw conclusions, estimate, induce, infer, put two and two together, ratiocinate, understand), إستنبط (contrive, devise, elicit, evolve, formulate, frame, work out), إستخرج (elicit, evolve, excavate, extract, lever, mine, quarry, read out, shake). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), заключавам (conclude, gather, induce, infer, reason), извличам (derive, distil, drag out, draw, elicit, excerpt, exhaust, extract, milk, recover). (various references) | |
Czech | vyvinout (form). (various references) | |
Farsi | گرفتن (Capture, Catch, Cease, Circle, Detract, Devest, Engage, Front, Grab, Gripe, Hold, Kindle, Nail, Obtain, Obturate, Pickup, Snatch, Take, Wed), استنباطکردن (Construe, Deduce, Divine, Induct, Infer), استخراج کردن (Exploit, Extract, Pan). (various references) | |
French | tirer, faire sortir (make an eduction), dégager. (various references) | |
German | entwickeln (construct, contract, contrive, develop, develope, display, evolve, expand, generate, process, produce, to develop, to device, to educe, to evolve, to generate, unfold, work up). (various references) | |
Greek | εξάγω (deduce, derive, elicit, export, extract, get out, pull). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kivon (deduct, extract, pull off, pull out, to defecate, to educe, to extract, to phase out, to pull out, to subtract), kifejleszt (to cultivate, to develop, to evolve, to expand). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengeluarkan (elicit, excrete, expel, secrete). (various references) | |
Italian | estrarre (abstract, draw, extract, mine, pull out, yank). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 抽出 (abstract, sample). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちゅうしゅつ (abstract, sample). (various references) | |
Manx | tayrn magh ass (extricate, extrication). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | educeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extrair (bows, couch, drag out, draw, drew, elicit, excerption, extract, lug, poker, pull, pump, take out, winkle out), mestre (adept, boss, gaffer, Governor-elect, instructor, maestro, master, nailer, skipper, teacher), induzir (admonish, dispose, induce, make, persuade, post, prompt, scold, spur, to admit, to induce, to ingest, urge), deduzir (abate, abstract, articulate, collect, deduce, derive, elicit, gather, imply, knock out, poke about, recoup, retrench). (various references) | |
Romanian | dovedi (accomplish, argue, attest, authenticate, aver, confirm, demonstrate, establish, evidence, evince, furnish evidence of, make good, make out, manifest, overbear, prove, show, substantiate, verify, witness), degaja (clear, disengage, emit, evolve, extricate, liberate, relieve, withdraw), deduce (argue, collect, conclude, deduce, deduct, draw, evolve, gather, induce, infer). (various references) | |
Russian | развивать (cultivate, develop, elaborate, evolve, expand, uncurl), выводить заключение (infer), выводить (bred, breed, deduce, extricate, recall, show out, take out, type-out). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izazvati (arouse, bring about, call up, cause, challenge, create, engender, generate, induce, originate, produce, prompt, tempt, touch off, trigger, trigger off). (various references) | |
Spanish | educir, sacar (bring out, bring up, draw, draw out, elicit, extract, fetch, get, let, produce, protract, put out, screw, take, take out, throw in, throw out), relatar cortamente, realizar educación. (various references) | |
Swedish | härleda (deduce, derive, to derive), få fram (elicit, get out, pick out, procure, produce), dra ut (bring out, drag out, draw out, elongate, extract, pull out). (various references) | |
Thai | พั'นา...มาจาก (โ"ยเฉพาะจากสิ่งที่ไม่สมบูร"์) (educe from). (various references) | |
Turkish | sonuç çıkarmak (conclude, deduce, induce, infer, make inferences, reason), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, 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 | робити висновок (conclude, deduce, draw a conclusion, elicit, gather, infer), виявляти (bespeak, demonstrate, detect, disclose, discover, display, elicit, evince, evolve, exert, find, show, uncover, vent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "educe": educed, educes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "educe": deduce, photoreduce, reduce, seduce. (additional references) | |
Words containing "educe": deduced, deduces, photoreduced, photoreduces, reduced, reducer, reducers, reduces, seduced, seducement, seducements, seducer, seducers, seduces. (additional references) | |
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"Educe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adace, adoce, aduce, deucer, deucex, deuche, eaukay, ebuke, edace, edae, Edcf, Edcs, edec, edice, edicet, Edjupci, Edku, edoc, edoe, edu, eduge, edule, edunet, Edusei, edute, Eiduk, enduc, enduce, esuce, etce, etube, etuge, etuse, euc, Eudocio, perduci. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: deuce. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-u" | |
-1 letter: cede, cued, duce. | |
-2 letters: cee, cud, cue, dee, due, ecu. | |
-3 letters: de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-u" | |
+1 letter: deduce, deuced, deuces, educed, educes, reduce, seduce. | |
+2 letters: bedunce, cudweed, cupeled, decuple, decurve, deduced, deduces, educate, eructed, euchred, exclude, excused, recused, reduced, reducer, reduces, rescued, seclude, secured, seduced, seducer, seduces, succeed, ulcered. | |
+3 letters: abductee, audience, becudgel, becursed, bedunced, bedunces, beuncled, bucketed, caudexes, censured, censused, coendure, cudgeled, cudgeler, cudweeds, cumbered, cuneated, cupelled, curetted, curseder, curveted, debouche, deciduae, decouple, decupled, decuples, decuries, decurved, decurves, deducted, denounce, deucedly, deuteric, duckweed, duecento, ecaudate, educable, educated, educates, educible, eductive, enounced, excluded, excluder, excludes, executed, inductee, lectured, pedicure, peduncle, preclude, precured, prudence, puckered, quenched, recouped, recurred, recurved, reducers, reedbuck, reinduce, relucted, schedule, secluded, secludes, seducers, seducive, succeeds, suckered, tuckered, unchewed, undecked, unfenced, verecund. | |
+4 letters: abductees, audiences, barbecued, beclouded, becrusted, becudgels, bescoured, bucklered, butchered, centupled, certitude, chequered, chuntered, clustered, cluttered, coendured, coendures, coequated, conquered, coquetted, counseled, countered, credendum, croqueted, crudeness, cudgelers, cudgelled, cullender, cursedest, curtseyed, curvetted, debauched, debauchee, debaucher, debauches, debouched, debouches, decalogue, deceitful, decennium, deciduate, deckhouse, decoupage, decoupled, decouples, decumbent, decurrent, decussate, deducible, deductive, defocused, defocuses, demulcent, denounced, denouncer, denounces, duchesses, duckweeds, duecentos, educables, educative, elucidate, encrusted, endurance, epicedium, eructated, euclidean, eutectoid, evacuated, excluders, fecundate, impudence, inductees, juicehead, lacquered, lacqueyed, nucleated, outechoed, overcured, peculated, pedicured, pedicures, peduncled, peduncles, percussed, precluded, precludes, prejudice, procedure, prudences, pudencies, quickened, reaccused, recounted, recoupled, recruited, rectitude, reducible, reductase, reductive, reedbucks, reeducate, refocused, reinduced, reinduces, renounced, reproduce, resecured, retouched, scheduled, scheduler, schedules, scunnered, scuppered, scuttered, seductive, sequenced, squelched, subjected, succedent, succeeded, succeeder, supercede, surceased, suspected, ulcerated, unchecked, uncleaned, uncoerced, uncovered, uncreated, undeceive, undecided, unelected, unexcited, unexcused, unreached, unscented, unscrewed, unsecured, upreached, vouchered. | |
+5 letters: abducentes, accoutered, acquiesced, adequacies, becudgeled, bullnecked, carbureted, causewayed, cauterized, certitudes, cofeatured, consuetude, counselled, courtesied, crenulated, cuddlesome, cullenders, cursedness, cussedness, debauchees, debauchers, debauchery, decalogues, decenniums, deckhouses, decoloured, decoupaged, decoupages, decussated, decussates, deductible, defocussed, defocusses, deliquesce, demulcents, denouncers, destructed, divulgence, documented, documenter, edulcorate, ejaculated, elucidated, elucidates, encapsuled, encouraged, encumbered, endurances, enucleated, enunciated, eutectoids, exactitude, excludable, excludible, exculpated, fecundated, fecundates, fluoresced, huckstered, imprudence, impudences, incumbered, inducement, indulgence, ineducable, influenced, juiceheads, keypunched, luminesced, mercurated, miseducate, nucleoside, nucleotide, outcapered, outcheated, outreached, outschemed, oversauced, pediculate, persecuted, predaceous, prefocused, prejudiced, prejudices, prepunched, procedures, prosecuted, pseudocoel, reacquired, recaptured, recomputed, recrudesce, rectitudes, reductases, reeducated, reeducates, refocussed, reincurred, reinducted, relaunched, reluctated, reoccupied, reoccurred, reproduced, reproducer, reproduces, reschedule, resculpted, resurfaced, schedulers, scouthered, secludedly, seducement, seductress, sepulchred, speculated, subsidence, succedanea, succeeders, succeeding, superceded, supercedes, unaccented, unaccepted, unachieved, unaffected, unbleached, unblenched, unbreeched, uncanceled, uncarpeted, uncensored, uncensured, unclenched, uncorseted, uncredited, undecadent, undeceived, undeceives, undecideds, undeclared, underacted, undercover, underprice, underreact, underscore, undetected, undirected, uneducable, uneducated, unenclosed, unenforced, unenriched, unescorted, unexcelled, unexpected, uninfected, unlicensed, unpuckered, unrecorded, unscreened, unselected, uppercased. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 64 75 63 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -.. ..- -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100100 01110101 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E d u c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0064 0075 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3970876971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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