Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Derivable (a.) That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources.

(1) - Derivate (v. t.) To derive.
(2) - Derivate (n.) A thing derived; a derivative.
(3) - Derivate (a.) Derived; derivative.

(1) - Derivation (n.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
(2) - Derivation (n.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
(3) - Derivation (n.) That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
(4) - Derivation (n.) That from which a thing is derived.
(5) - Derivation (n.) The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
(6) - Derivation (n.) The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.
(7) - Derivation (n.) The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
(8) - Derivation (n.) A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

(1) - Derivational (a.) Relating to derivation.

(1) - Derivative (n.) A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.
(2) - Derivative (n.) A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.
(3) - Derivative (n.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).
(4) - Derivative (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord.
(5) - Derivative (n.) A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root.
(6) - Derivative (n.) That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another.
(7) - Derivative (a.) Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.