derive
IPA: dɝˈaɪv
verb
- (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
- (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
- (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
- (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
- (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
- To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
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Examples of "derive" in Sentences
- The origin is variously derived.
- What kind of authority does one derive from a non-binding goal.
- This rule does not derive from the authority of the Constitution. —
- Again, your basic problems all derive from a depressingly familiar source: ignorance.
- But the room has an elegance and a permanence that derive from the many decisions she and Shutler made along the way.
- So, go ahead and wallow in what little meaness you can derive from the superlative performance of this administration.
- Stationary also used to mean stationery; both terms derive from the Latin stationarius, stationery arriving indirectly by stationer + - y.
- I think environmental laws may be at risk by such an amendment (in the Bills of Federalism that was specifically addressed) and should be explicitly allowed here, but civil rights laws do not derive from the Commerce Clause.
- Nobody Really: I think environmental laws may be at risk by such an amendment (in the Bills of Federalism that was specifically addressed) and should be explicitly allowed here, but civil rights laws do not derive from the Commerce Clause.
- Wishing to send you a copy of this edition, and also to include the expenses and probable returns in the account, in order that you might see more clearly what you may reasonably expect in future to derive from the works, I have waited till this edition should be ready.
- Society in places like India, Hong Kong and Shanghai centered around Government House, but the presence of the military in other British colonies and dominions reinforced English social patterns – though the elite of Hong Kong and Shanghai society were more likely to derive from the merchant classes.
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