Derive vs Incur - What's the difference?
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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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, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
* (and other bibliographic details) Holland
To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
* 1891 , Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), The works of Xenophon , ",
* 1910 , ,
(chiefly, legal) To render somebody liable or subject to.
* 1861 , ,
(obsolete) To enter or pass into.
(obsolete) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
* Chapman
In transitive terms the difference between derive and incur
is that derive is to obtain or receive (something) from something else while incur is to render liable or subject to; to occasion.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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Alternative forms
* encurVerb
(incurr)- [T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]
- And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;
- The least neglect of duty will incur [...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.
- Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.