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Inducing   /ɪndˈusɪŋ/   Listen
Inducing

noun
1.
Act of bringing about a desired result.  Synonym: inducement.


Induce

verb
(past & past part. induced; pres. part. inducing)
1.
Cause to arise.  Synonym: bring on.
2.
Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.  Synonyms: cause, get, have, make, stimulate.  "My children finally got me to buy a computer" , "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
3.
Cause to occur rapidly.  Synonyms: hasten, rush, stimulate.
4.
Reason or establish by induction.
5.
Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes.  Synonym: induct.



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"Inducing" Quotes from Famous Books



... and it was proved that the Mormon Church had nothing to do with the massacre; that Lee, in fact, had acted in direct opposition to the officers of the Church. It was shown that he was a villain and a murderer of the deepest dye; that with his own hands, after inducing the emigrants to surrender and give up their arms, he had shot two women and brained a third with the butt-end of his musket, and had cut the throat of a wounded man whom he had dragged from one of the ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... sail! To these vicissitudes is the seaman subject; at one time he is in the midst of craft, at another the ocean seems deserted to himself alone. Captain Rowley ascribed this want of success to the fact that the war was inducing the running ships to collect in convoys, and that his orders carried him too far north to permit his falling in with the Americans, bound to and from Liverpool. Whatever may have been the reason, however, the result was ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper
... meager comforts. Finding upon inquiry that Hamilton was thoroughly responsible, the trader consented to the girls' spending their nights at their brother's home. He was also at pains to secure good homes for the unfortunate group and was successful in inducing a wealthy Englishman to purchase his ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... phenol and its derivatives, which are soluble in alkali, into water-soluble form by either heating the condensation products with concentrated solutions of formaldehyde and neutral sulphites, or by dissolving the condensation products in alkali and inducing reaction by means of formaldehyde bisulphite. [Footnote: Collegium, 1913, 518, 324.] Highly concentrated solutions result, which may be concentrated either as such or after the alkali present has been neutralised. The sulphurous acid formed ...
— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser
... answered Edith; "though I very much doubt that you will succeed in inducing them to sit quiet ...
— Twice Lost • W.H.G. Kingston


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