Thesaurus: derive

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1. 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.
2. v. t. To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
3. v. t. To word/trace">trace the word/origin">origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
4. v. t. To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
5. v. i. To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
6. v. reason by deduction; establish by deduction
7. v. obtain from a particular source
8. v. develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
9. v. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
10. To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoreticalsubstitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its correspondinghydrocarbon.
11. v:100 v. obtain v. come from v. develop or evolve from a latent or potential state v. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example