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Deriving   /dərˈaɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Deriving

noun
1.
(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase.  Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing.



Derive

verb
(past & past part. derived; pres. part. deriving)
1.
Reason by deduction; establish by deduction.  Synonyms: deduce, deduct, infer.
2.
Obtain.  Synonym: gain.
3.
Come from.
4.
Develop or evolve from a latent or potential state.  Synonym: educe.
5.
Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example.  Synonyms: come, descend.  "He comes from humble origins"






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... explosive limits. If, then, a naked light is applied to a vessel containing a mixture of a combustible gas and air, in which mixture the proportion of combustible gas is below the lower limit of explosibility, the gas will not take fire, but the light will continue to burn, deriving its necessary oxygen from the excess of air present. On the other hand, if a light is applied to a vessel containing a mixture of a combustible gas and air, in which mixture the proportion of combustible gas is above the upper limit of explosibility, the ...
— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

... would be so debased as to ruin all the Europeans who had any quantity of East India diamonds in their possession, and would even render the discovery itself of no importance, and prevent his majesty from deriving any advantages from it. On these considerations, his majesty thought proper to restrain the general search for diamonds, and erected a diamond company, with an exclusive charter for this purpose; in which company, in consideration of a sum of money paid to the king, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr

... Deriving from her mother the threefold gifts of grace, beauty, and majesty, the fair Bourbon inherited also, it must be owned, a share of that princess's inclination to l'honnete galanterie. The restriction to a share should be noted; for at no period of her heydey, not ...
— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... Wilson's unspoken thoughts. "Because, with that confounded Lupin, one has nothing to go upon; one works at random. Instead of deriving the truth from exact facts, one has to get at it by intuition and verify it afterward to see if ...
— The Blonde Lady - Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsne Lupin and the English Detective • Maurice Leblanc

... to persons elected by themselves, in the full extent necessary for all the purposes of free, enlightened and efficient government. The whole system is elective, the complete sovereignty being in the people, and every officer in every department deriving his authority from and being responsible to them ...
— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various


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