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UK
/dˌɛɹɪvˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌdɛɹəˈveɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌdɛɹəˈveɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
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the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
he prefers shoes of Italian derivation
music of Turkish derivation - the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
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(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 - inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
How To Use derivation In A Sentence
- The term "gentilhomme" is so liable to be confounded with "gentleman" that it needs explaining, for, despite the similarity of derivation, no two words can be more distinct. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
- the morphological relation between `sing' and `singer' and `song' is derivational
- No quibbling about the derivation of the word rakia, which is literally something beaten out, [122] can affect the explicit description of the Mosaic writer, contained in the words ‘the waters that are above the firmament,’ or avail to show that he was aware that the sky is but transparent space. Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
- This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.
- It would literally have meant '(Town of) flowing waters', from *rūmōn 'river; flowing water', a securely Indo-European formation built on the root *reu- 'to flow, to run (as of liquid)' and the derivational suffix *-mo-. An etymology for 'Rome'
- The claimed derivation is from an obsolete word (in Latin) "feo" = "to bring forth", where the eo became the œ ligature (perhaps because the EO combination really was a single vowel in old english, including runes!) which then became separate letters O and E because of typesetting issues. Pharyngula
- In English, there are some derivational morphemes, such as ity, which dramatically affect the phonological shape of the stem.
- Waters thus defended “informal reduction,” in which molecular models of crossing-over between homologous chromosomes were shown to be explanatory, even though no derivational reduction was involved. Molecular Biology
- He lists and describes the dietetic and medicinal uses of 81 drugs, citing their Arabic and Persian derivations.
- I've considered myself particularly qualified to weigh in on the subject ever since my philosophy professor pointed out to me as a college freshman that the Italian derivation of my name, Mal-erb-a, can be interpreted to mean "bad weed. Larry Malerba, D.O. : Medical Marijuana: The Pros and Cons of Legal Cannabis
