Derived vs Arrived - What's the difference?
derived | arrived |
(systematics) Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.
(comparable, archaic, taxonomy) Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.
product of derivation
(derive)
(arrive)
(copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
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To obtain a level of success or fame.
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To come; said of time.
To happen or occur.
* Waller
(archaic) To reach; to come to.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To bring to shore.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between derived and arrived
is that derived is past tense of derive while arrived is past tense of arrive.As an adjective derived
is of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.derived
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The French language is derived from Latin.
Usage notes
Modern systematics proscribes use of derived'' to mean "advanced", preferring to use ''derived to simply mean "changed from the ancestral state" without an evaluation of quality.See also
* apomorphyVerb
(head)arrived
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Verb
(head)arrive
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Verb
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- Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them