Deducted vs Deduced - What's the difference?
deducted | deduced |
(deduct)
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.
(deduce)
To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
(obsolete, Latinism) To lead forth.
* Selden
As verbs the difference between deducted and deduced
is that deducted is past tense of deduct while deduced is past tense of deduce.deducted
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Verb
(head)deduct
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Verb
(en verb)- I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.
Anagrams
*deduced
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Verb
(head)deduce
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Verb
- O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes / From the dire nation in its early times?
- Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.
- See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.
- to deduce a part from the whole
- (Ben Jonson)
- He should hither deduce a colony.