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derivation: the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin; drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation; drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body; a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions; the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation"; (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation: `singer' from `sing'; `undo' from `do'

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provenance collapse

doublet collapse: a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance

taproot collapse: something that provides an important central source for growth or development; "the taproot of his resentment"; "genius and insanity spring from the same taproot"; (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem

radix collapse

whence collapse

etiology collapse: the philosophical study of causation; the cause of a disease

provenience collapse

word formation collapse

philology collapse

linguistics collapse: the humanistic study of language and literature; the scientific study of language

bloodline collapse

pedigree collapse: ancestry of a purebred animal; line of descent of a purebred animal

inception collapse

by product collapse

lexicology collapse: the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language

semantics collapse: the study of language meaning

etymology collapse: the study of the sources and development of words; a history of a word

acquisition collapse: the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another"; something acquired; "a recent acquisition by the museum"

mocking collapse: playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell

resultant collapse: the final point in a process

arrogation collapse

derivative collapse: (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'"; resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

morpheme collapse: minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

distillate collapse: a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling

plagiarism collapse: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own; a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

stirps collapse

legacy collapse

sequel collapse: a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it; something that follows something else

glossematics collapse

adoption collapse: the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"; a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)

paradigm collapse: the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"; systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

grass roots collapse: the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity); the essential foundation or source; "the problem was attacked at the grass roots"

direct line collapse

affixation collapse: formation of a word by means of an affix; the result of adding an affix to a root word

phonetics collapse: the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis

corollary collapse: (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition; a practical consequence that follows naturally; "blind jealousy is a frequent corollary of passionate love"

appropriation collapse: a deliberate act of acquisition; money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

phonology collapse: the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

upshot collapse

consanguinity collapse: (anthropology) related by blood

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