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Educe

Definitions: Educe

Educe

Verb

1. 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: Educe

Synonyms: derive (v), draw out (v), elicit (v), evoke (v), extract (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Educe

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Educe

English words defined with "educe": Educed, Educing. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Educe

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translations: Educe

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Educe

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Educe

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Educe


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

45 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)

01000101 01100100 01110101 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#100 &#117 &#99 &#101

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)

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

3970876971

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INDEX

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


  

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