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