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Meaning Of Derive
v. t.
To turn the course of, as water; to divert and
distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to
transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.
v. t.
To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by
descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
v. t.
To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to
recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the
Anglo-Saxon.
v. t.
To obtain one substance from another by actual or
theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its
corresponding hydrocarbon.
v. i.
To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be
deduced.