deduce

Meaning

  1. To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
  2. To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.
  3. To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.
  4. To be derived or obtained from some source.
  5. (obsolete) To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).
  6. (obsolete) To lead (something) forth.

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
de‧duce
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dɪˈdjuːs/
Etymology

In summary

From Late Middle English deducen (“to demonstrate, prove, show; to argue, infer; to bring, lead; to turn (something) to a use; to deduct”), borrowed from Latin dēdūcere, the present active infinitive of dēdūcō (“to lead or bring out or away; to accompany, conduct, escort; (figuratively) to derive, discover, deduce”); from dē- (prefix meaning ‘from, away from’) + dūcere (the present active infinitive of dūcō (“to conduct, guide, lead; to draw, pull; to consider, regard, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to lead; to draw, pull”)).

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