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- English Word Derision Definition The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
- English Word Derision Definition An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.
- English Word Derisive Definition Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.
- English Word Derisory Definition Derisive; mocking.
- English Word Derivable Definition That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources.
- English Word Derivably Definition By derivation.
- English Word Derival Definition Derivation.
- English Word Derivate Definition Derived; derivative.
- English Word Derivate Definition A thing derived; a derivative.
- English Word Derivate Definition To derive.
- English Word Derivation Definition A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- English Word Derivation Definition 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.
- English Word Derivation Definition The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.
- English Word Derivation Definition The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- English Word Derivation Definition That from which a thing is derived.
- English Word Derivation Definition That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
- English Word Derivation Definition 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.
- English Word Derivation Definition A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- English Word Derivational Definition Relating to derivation.
- English Word Derivative Definition Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.
- English Word Derivative Definition That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another.
- English Word Derivative Definition A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root.
- English Word Derivative Definition A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord.
- English Word Derivative Definition An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).
- English Word Derivative Definition A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.
- English Word Derivative Definition A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.
- English Word Derive Definition 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.
- English Word Derive Definition To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
- English Word Derive Definition To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
- English Word Derive Definition To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.