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DERIVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deriving mean? 

DERIVING (noun)
  The noun DERIVING has 1 sense:

1. (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phraseplay

  Familiarity information: DERIVING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DERIVING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

derivation; deriving; etymologizing

Hypernyms ("deriving" is a kind of...):

account; explanation (a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.)

Domain category:

diachronic linguistics; diachrony; historical linguistics (the study of linguistic change)

Derivation:

derive (come from)


 Context examples 


Someone deriving or descending from an ancestor.

(Descendent, NCI Thesaurus)

Rare examples of esophageal adenocarcinoma deriving from ectopic gastric mucosa in the upper esophagus have also been reported.

(Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

"Who or what speaks?" I asked, terrified at the unexpected sound, and incapable now of deriving from any occurrence a hope of aid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Method of deriving or calculating a measured value (e.g., mean, or maximum of set).

(Mathematical Derivation, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

Fanny's spirits lived on it half the morning, deriving some accession of pleasure from its writer being himself to go away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She had never rejoiced at the sound before, nor ever before entered the passage, nor walked up the stairs, with any wish of giving pleasure, but in conferring obligation, or of deriving it, except in subsequent ridicule.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She had a turn for narrative, I for analysis; she liked to inform, I to question; so we got on swimmingly together, deriving much entertainment, if not much improvement, from our mutual intercourse.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To be deriving support from the commendations of Mrs. Fraser!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny went to her every two or three days: it seemed a kind of fascination: she could not be easy without going, and yet it was without loving her, without ever thinking like her, without any sense of obligation for being sought after now when nobody else was to be had; and deriving no higher pleasure from her conversation than occasional amusement, and that often at the expense of her judgment, when it was raised by pleasantry on people or subjects which she wished to be respected.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)



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