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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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To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by
descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from. |
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To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to
recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the
Anglo-Saxon. |
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To obtain one substance from another by actual or
theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its
corresponding hydrocarbon. |
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To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be
deduced. |
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