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(v)
(transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
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(transitive) To infer by extending known information.
(transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
To collect normally separate things.
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of generalize. [To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.]
(n)
(uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
(transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
An exchange of arguments
To intend.
(intransitive) To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
(transitive, sometimes with 'of') To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
(transitive) To understand (something) as meaning, to take to mean.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.
(transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
To demand ownership of.
(transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
(transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
The end, finish, close or last part of something.
(intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
A sum that can be removed in tax calculations, usually from the taxable amount; something that is written off.
The ability to be deducted, such as from one's taxes
(mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
(transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(adj)
Determinative; causal.
(uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
(ambitransitive) To know intuitively or by immediate perception.
(transitive, medicine) To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
(transitive) To gather together; amass.
(obsolete, rare) To infer from an inference previously made.
To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
(transitive) To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
(transitive) To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.
(intransitive) To reason by means of syllogisms.
To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.
(countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
(transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
(copulative) To come to a final place, condition, or situation, sometimes unplanned or unexpected; to turn out.
To bring in as a member; to make a part of.
(transitive) To solve or determine by reasoning.
To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
(transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
To transmit; to transfer.
(transitive) To bring in; introduce; present; usher in; adduce; induce; cause to come in.
(transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
(logic) The result of obversion.
(transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
(informal) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
(transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
(informal) An introduction.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
(transitive) To begin; to start.
(humorous) A detective (from Sherlock Holmes), especially used sarcastically to address somebody who has stated the obvious.
To derive a process, rationale, etc. from its conclusions or results.
(transitive) To teach by repeated instruction.
(transitive, mechanical and electricity) To lead into; conduct.
To provide sufficient reason to come to a conclusion about something.
To come to a conclusion about someone or something; to make a note of one's conclusion about someone or something.
To reduce the price of.
(transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.