derive
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derive /dɪˈrʌɪv/
▶verb
- 1 (derive something from) obtain something from (a specified source).
■ base something on a modification of: Marx derived his philosophy of history from Hegel.
■ Mathematics obtain a function or equation from another, especially by differentiation.
- 2 (derive from) have as a root or origin; originate from.
– derivatives
derivable adjective.
derivable adjective.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘draw a fluid through or into a channel’): from OFr. deriver or L. derivare, from de- ‘down, away’ + rivus ‘brook, stream’.
'derive' also found in these Oxford entries:
bang
- bead
- best
- Coventry
- derivative
- diary
- divine right of kings
- dramedy
- exchequer
- exploit
- extract
- feed
- French leave
- -geny
- induce
- inherit
- lean
- masochism
- matter
- minute
- organism
- piston
- pleasure
- positivism
- Proto-Indo-European
- rack
- sadism
- square meal
- tradition
- virtue
