Crossword-Solution: DERIVATION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Derivation | n. | A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. |
| Derivation | n. | 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. |
| Derivation | n. | The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root. |
| Derivation | n. | The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted. |
| Derivation | n. | That from which a thing is derived. |
| Derivation | n. | That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. |
| Derivation | n. | 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. |
| Derivation | n. | A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DERIVATION | anagram | INADVERIOT |
We have 28 clues for the answer “DERIVATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation | 1 answer |
| FORMATION of word from word or root | 1 answer |
| provenance | 5 answers |
| ascription | 5 answers |
| etymology | 6 answers |
| mainspring | 9 answers |
| filiation | 11 answers |
| derivative | 11 answers |
| fount | 28 answers |
| inference | 28 answers |
| Extraction | 31 answers |
| Fountain ___ | 35 answers |
| etiology | 35 answers |
| AETIOLOGY | 36 answers |
| Ancestry | 37 answers |
| Imputation | 38 answers |
| Lineage | 40 answers |
| GENESIS | 41 answers |
| Inception | 42 answers |
| denotation | 43 answers |
| From | 43 answers |
| utilisation | 61 answers |
| Descent | 68 answers |
| Beginning | 75 answers |
| Foundation | 77 answers |
| formation | 78 answers |
| Origin | 82 answers |
| usefulness | 86 answers |
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Sentences with DERIVATION (5)
Two years later, in February, 1839, being already in possession of the Suard pension, he addressed to the Institute, as a competitor for the Volney prize, a memoir entitled: "Studies in Grammatical Classification and the Derivation of some French words." It was his first work, revised and presented in another form.
Joe was probably the only person of respectable derivation in Canaan who had not known for weeks that Ariel Tabor was on her way home.
How he meets this difficulty may be imagined from his statement, as follows: "As for the derivation of words by addition, subtraction, and inversion of the letters, it is certain that this can and ought thus to be done, if we would find etymologies--a thing which becomes very credible when we consider that the Hebrews wrote from right to left and the Greeks and others from left to right.
When I asked Chal-az for the Caspakian name for rope, he told me ga, and for the first time I understood the derivation of the word Galu, which means ropeman.
When I had concluded he asked me whether I knew the meaning of the word Wrexham: I told him I believed I did, and gave him the derivation which the reader will find in an early chapter of this work.
Quotes with DERIVATION (3)
Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived, or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are engaged in no very deep discourse.” To which one of them, Heracleon the Megarean, replied: “ ’Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb Ballo be spelt with adouble L, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives Cheirou and Beltiou…
For much of my life I was not acquainted with what may seem the obscure derivation of the adjective 'sincere.' It is from two Latin words, sine, without, and cera, wax. What a rare thing it is to be treated without wax. My desire is always to conduct relationships based upon honest regard. As I sipped the last drops of beef tea I tried to enumerate moments stripped of pretense and all I could come up with was those efforts of mine, with brother-in-law, when he grasped my hand…
I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at the entrance of Le Murate by parents whose aspirations for their daughters did not include marriage. Our paths to the convent were varied, but no matter. We all wound up in the same habit.