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Derive vs Accept - What's the difference?

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Derive is a related term of accept.


As verbs the difference between derive and accept

is that derive is while accept is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

As a noun derive

is drift.

As an adjective accept is

(obsolete) accepted.

derive

English

Verb

(deriv)
  • To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz
  • , title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
  • (logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
  • (linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
  • (chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
  • To originate or stem (from).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= How to Be Manipulative , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
  • To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Holland
  • For fear it [water] choke up the pitsthey [the workman] derive it by other drains.

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    accept

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
  • * (rfdate)
  • She accepted of a treat.
  • * (rfdate), Psalms 20:3
  • The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
  • To admit to a place or a group.
  • The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
  • To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
  • I accept the fact that Christ lived.
  • To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
  • To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
  • I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
  • To endure patiently.
  • I accept my punishment.
  • (transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.
  • To receive officially
  • to accept the report of a committee
  • To receive something willingly.
  • I accept .

    Synonyms

    * receive * take * withtake * admit

    Antonyms

    * reject * decline

    Derived terms

    * accepted * acceptedly * accepter * acceptive * accept a bill * accept person * accept service

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Accepted.
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , V-ii
  • Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
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