Dictionary Entry
derive
derive is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
- 3transitive verb
To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
- 4transitive verb
To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
- 5intransitive verb
To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
- 6verb
develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
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- 7verb
come from
"The present name derives from an older form"
- 8verb
reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- 9verb
obtain
"derive pleasure from one's garden"
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- 10verb
come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
"She was descended from an old Italian noble family"
"he comes from humble origins"
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