Derive vs Deprive - What's the difference?
derive | deprive |
To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
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, title= (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).
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, title= To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
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To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
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* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
As verbs the difference between derive and deprive
is that derive is to obtain or receive (something) from something else while deprive is to take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.derive
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(deriv)Sarah Glaz
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.}}
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.}}
- For fear it [water] choke up the pitsthey [the workman] derive it by other drains.
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(depriv)- "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
- If we had been deprived' of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be ' deprived of philosophy.