Synonym: acquire, gain, get, obtain, receive, secure. Similar words: derive from, drive, thrive, driver, driveway, drive out, drive up, arrive at. Meaning: [dɪ'raɪv] v. 1. reason by deduction; establish by deduction 2. obtain 3. come from 4. develop or evolve from a latent or potential state 5. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example.
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31. These are instructions telling us how we may derive new propositions from propositions already established.
32. The executives' gargantuan incomes derive from their power over what has become an increasingly scarce factor of production, capital.
33. The idea is that managers derive utility from spending the company's funds to an extent beyond that necessary for profit maximisation.
34. For example, it could be used to derive the Szekeres solution described in Chapter 9 from the Khan-Penrose solution.
35. Rather they derive from associated events in experience that antedate linguistic structure both phylogenetically and, in man, in individual development.
36. Resources Most patients are managed in primary care but the vast majority of research publications derive from hospitals.
37. All archaebacteria thrive in intense heat, and most derive their energy from breaking chemical bonds.
38. His difficulties did not derive from the way he was reared.
39. Teachers' perceptions about reading instruction often derive from a pragmatic approach rather than from a theoretical background.
40. An inability to derive pleasure from doing things for others 14.
41. I am unable to derive any assistance from the provisions relating to administrators on the question of administrative receivership.
42. Similar estimates derive from observed forest destruction, scaled from the uprooting of trees in nuclear weapons tests.
43. Thus D in Figure 6-2a indicates tIle benefits which private individuals derive from education.
44. Training is needed to enable them to derive greater value and information from the source.
45. Other parts of my argument derive from Malinowski, Mauss and Levi-Strauss, as well as from various of my younger contemporaries.
46. The primary pleasures of the imagination derive from direct observation of objects before our eyes.
47. That the Interludium could derive directly from Dame Sirith is possible. Sentencedict.com
48. He provided frames to enable anyone to derive four major word classes - noun, verb, adjective and adverb.
49. Goats are highly susceptible to Haemonchus contortus particularly when they are precluded from browsing and derive all their food intake from pasture.
50. Even the bacteria that feed on animal and plant wastes derive their energy from the Sun.
51. To derive benefit from taekwondo training, the body has to be in peak physical condition.
52. It was seen to derive directly from the dual functions of the state, the securing of accumulation and legitimation.
53. In addition, universities and polytechnics commonly derive substantial funding from endowments, or from grants and gifts from foundations and benefactors.
54. Government could derive its right to exist only from the consent of the governed.
55. Poor girl, I suspected she would not derive much pleasure from that relationship.
56. Many of these taboos derive from patriarchal societies taking the power of women and turning it on its head.
57. For example, owner-occupiers are considered to derive real wealth from houses as assets.
58. A range of data sources will be used to derive the best possible estimates.
59. Each of these seems to derive something from the interruptable time of the television chronotope, and its consequently segmented narrative.
60. We shall therefore seek to derive information about a word's meaning from its relations with actual and potential linguistic contexts.
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