derivation

derivation is a 10-letter English word with 16 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
2. noun. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
3. noun. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.
4. noun. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
5. noun. That from which a thing is derived.
6. noun. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
7. noun. The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
8. noun. A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
9. noun. the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
10. noun. drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
11. noun. drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
12. noun. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

    Synonyms: ancestry, filiation, lineage

13. noun. a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
14. noun. (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase

    Synonyms: deriving, etymologizing

15. noun. the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)

    "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"

    "music of Turkish derivation"

16. noun. (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation

    "`singer' from `sing' or `undo' from `do' are examples of derivations"

Synonyms

ancestry, filiation, lineage, deriving, etymologizing

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in derivation:

ordinative

Common word forms

derivations, derivational

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