to deduce
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4.6
- verb
- /dɪˈdjuːs/
- From the evidence presented during the trial, the jury was able to deduce that the defendant was guilty.
- deduce from first principles
- try to deduce
- possible to deduce
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Watch on YouTubeYou just look for evidence and try to deduce what what it means.
- You just look for evidence and try to deduce what what it means.
- You can't just, strictly speaking, deduce it from what came previously.
- I didn't feel like the future could be deduced from first principle thinking.
- He had seen the the flare and then deduced that this was related to it.
- Better way to learn is to be able to infer, to deduce new information from old.
- So with that, one might logically deduce that out the window goes your bliss.
- So you make up some language, and from that language you deduce some things.
- They calculated it based on equations that I deduced from Einstein's laws of gravity.
- It's a mathematical model, so we deduce what our assumptions indicate.
- What's in an E flat major chord and you can deduce it from that.
- It ought to be possible to deduce that from the shapes of proteins.
- It's not always easy to deduce sort of what's going on in the larger scales, how life works.
- It was clearly, if you were to walk past it, you would immediately be able to deduce this is not a place where I can bring children.
- Understand that fear is a product of what you have analyzed and logically deduced.
- That's what they have deduced is the reason that they're getting the installs that they get.
- And personally I think that's that's the way to go about teaching it to start with the simplest things and deduce the consequences.
Examples
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What can you deduce from that?
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You can't just, strictly speaking, deduce it from what came previously.
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And so you should be able to deduce what this is.
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Ask those customers a series of questions from which we can deduce what matters to them.
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Since you found that blood and hair on the support beam, I would deduce that was the cause of the primary injury.
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And from that we can deduce the way that simple pathways operate.
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Therefore, we can deduce that these characteristics may be an important part of effective consultation.
Academic text (2008) -
Five minutes into the conversation, he had deduced why this should be so.
Fiction book (1990) -
When we have observed the pulsation period precisely, we can deduce the average sound speed throughout the star.
Academic text (1991) -
We will use public choice theory to deduce some plausible explanations.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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2.3
To find out a fact by checking or measuring
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3.1
To decide something after looking at the facts
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3.1
Understand something from evidence or from what someone says
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3.3
To think carefully or discuss something to reach a decision
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5.5
Decide that something is true using evidence
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5.7
To find out for sure by checking the facts
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4.3
Find a result or conclusion by careful thinking
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3.8
Figure out what happened from obvious facts
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4.8
To think carefully to find an answer to a problem
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4.9
To show that something is likely true because of evidence
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2.9
To choose what to do after thinking about the options
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4.4
Reach a conclusion by using known facts
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Deduce comes from Latin parts de- 'down' or 'from' and ducere 'to lead'. So to deduce is to be 'led' from facts to a conclusion, which is why it means reaching a conclusion by reasoning.