verb
- Reason by deduction; establish by deduction.
- Obtain.
- usage: "derive pleasure from one's garden"
- Come from.
- usage: "The present name derives from an older form"
- synonyms: derive
- Develop or evolve from a latent or potential state.
- Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example.
- usage: "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
adjective
- Formed or developed from something else; not original. "the belief that classes and organizations are secondary and derived- John Dewey
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