If you want to talk about something that comes from something else, but you want to sound sophisticated and maybe financial or scientific, use derive, like so: That scent? It's derived from a solution of roses boiled with toothpicks.
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.
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develop or evolve, especially from a latent or potential state
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come from; "The present name derives from an older form"
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reason by deduction; establish by deduction
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obtain; "derive pleasure from one''s garden"
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come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
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.
v. t.
To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by
descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
v. t.
To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to
recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the
Anglo-Saxon.
v. t.
To obtain one substance from another by actual or
theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its
corresponding hydrocarbon.
v. i.
To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be
deduced.
Derive
For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains.
Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share.
Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah.2.
From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases.4.
Derive
Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed.
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.
To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
Usage Examples
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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Other Usage ExamplesA wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
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