All 9 Uses of
derive
in
David Copperfield
- That, and a sense that we were both a little afraid of Peggotty, and submitted ourselves in most things to her direction, were among the first opinions — if they may be so called — that I ever derived from what I saw.†
Chpt 1-3
- I never could have derived anything like the pleasure from spending the money Mr. Dick had given me, that I felt in sending a gold half-guinea to Peggotty, per post, enclosed in this last letter, to discharge the sum I had borrowed of her: in which epistle, not before, I mentioned about the young man with the donkey-cart.†
Chpt 16-18
- The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts — in short,' said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, 'they are weaned — and Mrs. Micawber is, at present, my travelling companion.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- He was as mute and senseless as the box, from which his form derived the only expression it had.†
Chpt 28-30
- Reminding him of the fact, that Mr. Peggotty derived a steady, though certainly a very moderate income from the bequest of his late brother-in-law, I promised to do so.†
Chpt 31-33
- Mr. Heep was rather abashed, as most people might have been, by this explosion; which derived great additional force from the indignant manner in which my aunt afterwards moved in her chair, and shook her head as if she were making snaps or bounces at him.†
Chpt 34-36
- I read the service over with a flat-candle on the previous night, and the conclusion I derived from it was, that I never could desert Mr. Micawber.†
Chpt 34-36
- All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, — in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.†
Chpt 52-54
- His bowed head, and her angel-face and filial duty, derived a more pathetic meaning from it than they had had before.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(derive) to get something from something else
(If the context doesn't otherwise indicate where something came from, it is generally from reasoning--especially deductive reasoning.)