deduce

IPA: dɪdˈus

verb

  • (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
  • (transitive) To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.
  • (transitive, archaic) To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.
  • (intransitive, archaic) To be derived or obtained from some source.
  • (transitive, obsolete) To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).
  • (transitive, obsolete, based on the word’s Latin etymon) To lead (something) forth.
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Examples of "deduce" in Sentences

  • So talking of conclusions, what can we deduce from the evening?
  • It cannot deduce from a book the nature of the being who wrote it.
  • What his movements were after that I had largely to deduce from the facts of the situation, for I could scarcely see him in the dim starlight.
  • Thus the only question left is why should one deduce from a “booklet explaining the phases of the moon” that the product has anything to do with Biodynamics?
  • At any rate, the point of that was going to be that my plan failed, and I was unable to deduce from the search return which obscure text you were looking at.
  • There is thus no reason to automatically deduce from a booklet and label about the moon that the vineyards are farmed biodynamically for they can be organic as well.
  • As on can deduce from the quote from Wilson above, the Germans may have copied their racism from Anglo-phone countries, but Anglophone and French countries also had strong humanistic and egalitarian traditions that they did not copy.
  • That man has a duty to so domesticate his passions to serve his reason we can deduce from the raw fact that the appetites are a multitude of contradictory desires, as easily able to be inconsistent with surrounding facts of reality as consistent.
  • The physicist Brian Pippard, who held Maxwell’s old chair†¦ at the University of Cambridge, has put it thus: ‘What is surely impossible is that a theoretical physicist, given unlimited computing power, should deduce from the law of physics that a certain complex structure is aware of its own existence. ’” (p44)

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