Vocabulary : Derivate to Derk
Derivate : Derived; derivative. ;; A thing derived; a derivative. ;; To derive.Derivation : A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. ;; 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. ;; The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root. ;; The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted. ;; That from which a thing is derived. ;; That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. ;; 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. ;; A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process. ;; The formation of a word from its more original or radical elements; also, a statement of the origin and history of a word.
Derivational : Relating to derivation.
Derivative : Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. ;; That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another. ;; A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root. ;; A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord. ;; An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense). ;; A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process. ;; A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.
Derive : 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. ;; To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from. ;; To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon. ;; To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. ;; To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
