Crossword-Solution: DERIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Derive | v. t. | 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. |
| Derive | v. t. | To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from. |
| Derive | v. t. | To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon. |
| Derive | v. t. | To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. |
| Derive | v. i. | To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DERIVE | anagram | REDIVE |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMEACZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DERIVE (5)
More than half of the entries now derive from {USENET} and represent jargon now current in the C and UNIX communities, but special efforts have been made to collect jargon from other cultures including IBM PC programmers, Amiga fans, Mac enthusiasts, and even the IBM mainframe world.
Matai Shang went livid with anger, but upon the lips of Thurid I could see a grim smile of amusement, for to him these things were not holy; so, lest he should derive too much amusement from my act, I cried: “And thus did I with the holies of Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal, ere I threw Issus herself to the mob that once had worshiped her, to be torn to pieces in her own temple.” That put an end to Thurid’s grinning, for he had been high in the favor of Issus.
Dispositions more boldly speculative may derive a stern enjoyment from the discovery, since there must be evil in the world, that a high man is as likely to grasp his share of it as a low one.
Could he both malign computer nerds as sub-human and then expect to derive a decent story from one of them? There was an inconsist- ency there.
One knight—ay, one man-at-arms, were enough for twenty such peasants.” “Enough, and too much,” said De Bracy; “I should only be ashamed to couch lance against them.” “True,” answered Front-de-Bœuf; “were they black Turks or Moors, Sir Templar, or the craven peasants of France, most valiant De Bracy; but these are English yeomen, over whom we shall have no advantage, save what we may derive from our arms and horses, which will avail us little in the glades of the forest.
Quotes with DERIVE (3)
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him... we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will, whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.
Both wisdom, and generosity derive from God. And when one submits themselves completely to Him, one soon becomes like Him: wise and generous.
The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one. Some of those who have asked it have added that if it should turn out that life has no purpose, it would lose all value for them. But this threat alters nothing. It looks, on the contrary, as though one had a right to dismiss the question, for it seems to derive from the human presumptuousness, many other manifestations …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 65 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).