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  • So are derivatives.†   (source)
  • What attracts you to derivatives in particular?†   (source)
  • Lucas said, "I'm just saying we don't want to come across as derivative."†   (source)
  • The fact that Zayd got their first CD last year, when they were unknown, combined with Cedric's casual aside last winter that he thought the group's curious mix of hip-hop and soul and rock was at best "derivative," gives Zayd bragging rights on having discovered them first.†   (source)
  • It is a derivative of Mabmood, meaning "praised".†   (source)
  • Many pieces of furniture are reproductions instead of actual period originals, giving America's most notable residence a cheap, derivative feel rather than an aura of grandeur.†   (source)
  • Hell, you can get a mild derivative of that in any over-the-counter pep-up.†   (source)
  • Originally intended to prevent escape of lab animals that might break free into the core, the sensors released ligamine, a curare derivative that was water-soluble, in the form of a gas.†   (source)
  • A derivative of Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • You never were a consignee and you have derivative PanAfrican citizenship through one of your grandfathers, no huhu.†   (source)
  • My original strategy was pathetically derivative, lacking logic and design and substituting for both an amorphous hunger to do for a small Southern city what James Joyce had done in his miraculous microcosm.†   (source)
  • I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary, it is something concentrated, strictly limited.†   (source)
  • She took a deep breath after finishing her explanation of a derivative.†   (source)
  • And then he'd add, "although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative."†   (source)
  • Have you ever heard of Nyodene Derivative?†   (source)
  • While we llve in our derivative cultures, pale reflections of Old Earth life, the Ousters have explored new dimensions of aesthetics and ethics and biosciences and art and all the things that must change and grow to reflect the human soul.†   (source)
  • What happens if the writer is good is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the work actually acquires depth and resonance from the echoes and chimes it sets up with prior texts, weight from the accumulated use of certain basic patterns and tendencies.†   (source)
  • Derivative!†   (source)
  • 'You think it's tacky and derivative.†   (source)
  • "Tanglefoot" is a derivative of the nerve gas we had been using on Bugs in the past — instead of killing, it gives any Bug that trots through it a sort of shaking palsy.†   (source)
  • Waste is an interesting word that you can trace through Old English and Old Norse back to the Latin, finding such derivatives as empty, void, vanish and devastate.†   (source)
  • The derivative of any given variable (x) to the exponent (n) is equal to product of the exponent and the variable to the (n-1) power.†   (source)
  • And doing covers isn't derivative?†   (source)
  • Derivatives.†   (source)
  • He pronounced the name itself, Nyodene Derivative, with an unseemly relish, taking morbid delight in the very sound.†   (source)
  • Carefully moving from one to the next, following Gervais's advice, jotting the power rule down in the margin: The derivative of any given variable (x) to the exponent (n) is equal to product of the exponent and the variable to the (n-1) power.†   (source)
  • If the special character of Nyodene derivative (added to the everyday drift of effluents, pollutants, contaminants and deliriants) had caused this aesthetic leap from already brilliant sunsets to broad towering ruddled visionary skyscapes, tinged with dread, no one had been able to prove it.†   (source)
  • "Velocity" is first derivative, the differential of distance with respect to time; he converted those equations into differential equations, then played games with them.†   (source)
  • Heavily indebted in tone to the opening passages of All the King's Men, using similar rhythms and even the same second-person singular to achieve the effect of the author grabbing the reader by the lapels, the passage was, I knew, to say the least, derivative, yet I also knew that there was much in it that was powerful and fresh.†   (source)
  • But his quinine derivative research had gone on solidly, and he did not regret leaving McGurk.†   (source)
  • They wanted to study further the exact mechanism of the action of their quinine derivatives.†   (source)
  • It is a sort of derivative which disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of BOOK FOURTH.†   (source)
  • Quite as much so as those later barbarians, young men probably, and picked specimens among the earlier British converts to Christianity, at least nominally such, and taken to Rome (as to-day converts from lesser isles of the sea may be taken to London), of whom the Pope of that time, admiring the strangeness of their personal beauty so unlike the Italian stamp, their clear ruddy complexion and curled flaxen locks, exclaimed, "Angles" (meaning English the modern derivative) "Angles do you call them?†   (source)
  • They had, they saw, to answer an interesting question: Do the quinine derivatives act by attaching themselves to the bacteria, or by changing the body fluids?†   (source)
  • The suite in which Devereux Warren was gracefully weakening and sinking was of the same size as that of the Señor Pardo y Cuidad Real—throughout this hotel there were many chambers wherein rich ruins, fugitives from justice, claimants to the thrones of mediatized principalities, lived on the derivatives of opium or barbitol listening eternally as to an inescapable radio, to the coarse melodies of old sins.†   (source)
  • The movement is, properly speaking, a derivative from Nihilism—though they are only known indirectly, and by hearsay, for they never advertise their doings in the papers.†   (source)
  • They constructed artificial body fluids (carefully, painfully, inadequately), they tried the effect of the derivative on germs in this artificial blood—and failed.†   (source)
  • While Martin did the injections and observed the effect on the monkeys and lost himself in chemistry, Terry toiled (all night, all next day, then a drink and a frowsy nap and all night again) on new methods of synthesizing the quinine derivative.†   (source)
  • He patented the process of synthesizing his quinine derivative and retired to Birdies' Rest, to build a laboratory out of his small savings and spend a life of independent research supported by a restricted sale of sera and of his drug.†   (source)
  • Their first task was to determine with accuracy the tolerated dose of the quinine derivative, and to study its effects on the hearing and vision, and on the kidneys, as shown by endless determinations of blood sugar and blood urea.†   (source)
  • But these ambitions he forgot as he came to Terry's proud proprietary shanty, by a lake among oaks and maples, and heard Terry's real theories of the decomposition of quinine derivatives.†   (source)
  • Terry had discovered that certain quinine derivatives when introduced into the animal body slowly decompose into products which are highly toxic to bacteria but only mildly toxic to the body.†   (source)
  • —I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country—to catch perch with shiners.†   (source)
  • Man is a derivative of the night.†   (source)
  • Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of expression and which live.†   (source)
  • In American it has produced a number of familiar derivatives, /e.†   (source)
  • The familiar American derivative, /buster/, as in /Buster Brown/, is unknown to the English.†   (source)
  • Most of these coinages produce derivatives, /e.†   (source)
  • All the usual derivatives appeared, /to steam-roller/, /steam-rollered/, and so on.†   (source)
  • The derivatives of /honour/ exhibit the confusion clearly.†   (source)
  • The derivative verb, /to guy/, is unknown in English; its nearest equivalent is /to spoof/, which is unknown in American.†   (source)
  • Nearly all of them are attended by derivative adjectives or nouns; /cut-up/, /show-down/, /kick-in/, /come-down/, /hang-out/, /start-off/, /run-in/, /balled-up/, /dolled-up/, /wind-up/, /bang-up/, /turn-down/, /jump-off/.†   (source)
  • [32] Both words have produced derivatives: /loaf/ (noun), /to loaf/, /corner-loafer/, /common-loafer/, /to bum/, /bum/ (adj.†   (source)
  • He changed the /ck/ in /frolick/, /physick/, etc., into a simple /c/, but restored it in such derivatives as /frolicksome/.†   (source)
  • /To heft/, in English, means to lift; the early Americans made it mean to weigh by lifting, and kept the idea of weighing in its derivatives, /e.†   (source)
  • Most of these new words, of course, produced derivatives, for example, /to stack hay/, /to shingle/, /to shuck/ (/i.†   (source)
  • If it were dropped in all derivatives the rule would be easy to remember, but it is retained in some of them, for example, /colourable/, /favourite/, /misdemeanour/, /coloured/ and /labourer/.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it has given birth to two derivatives of like quality, both unknown in America—/caucusdom/, meaning machine control, and /caucuser/, meaning a machine politician.†   (source)
  • The German /Zimmermann/, with either one /n/ or two, is naturally the most numerous single name, and following close upon it are its derivatives, /Zimmer/ and /Zimmern/.†   (source)
  • Moreover, they drop the /u/ in many derivatives, for example, in /arboreal/, /armory/, /clamorously/, /clangorous/, /odoriferous/, /humorist/, /laborious/ and /rigorism/.†   (source)
  • This distinction between English and American usage still prevails, despite the affectation which has lately sought to revive /boot/, and with it its derivatives, /boot-shop/ and /bootmaker/.†   (source)
  • In derivatives of the Greek /haima/ it is the almost invariable American custom to spell the root syllable /hem/, but the more conservative English make it /haem/—/e.†   (source)
  • Its familiar derivatives, /e.†   (source)
  • g./, /backwoodsman/, /breadstuffs/, /caucus/, /clapboard/, /sleigh/ and /squatter/—and of such familiar derivatives as /gubernatorial/ and /dutiable/, and he worked out the genesis of not a few loan-words, including /prairie/, /scow/, /rapids/, /hominy/ and /barbecue/.†   (source)
  • [27] As usual, derivatives quickly followed the new-comers, among them /peonage/, /broncho-buster/, /ranchman/ and /ranch-house/, and the verbs /to ranch/, /to lasso/, /to corral/, /to ante up/, and /to cinch/†   (source)
  • /carpet-bagger/, /lame-duck/ and /on the fence/; the old words put to new uses: /plank/, /platform/, /machine/, /precinct/, /slate/, /primary/, /floater/, /repeater/, /bolter/, /stalwart/, /filibuster/, /regular/ and /fences/; the new coinages: /gerrymander/, /heeler/, /buncombe/, /roorback/, /mugwump/ and /to bulldoze/; the new derivatives: /abolitionist/, /candidacy/, /boss-rule/, [Pg084] /per-diem/, /to lobby/ and /boodler/; and the almost innumerable verbs and verb-phrases: /to knife/, /to split a ticket/, /to go up Salt River/, /to bolt/, /to eat crow/, /to boodle/, /to divvy/, /to grab/ and /to run/.†   (source)
  • For life, I prize it As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour, 'Tis a derivative from me to mine, And only that I stand for.†   (source)
  • But in regard to the interfering acts of a superior and subordinate authority, of an original and derivative power, the nature and reason of the thing indicate the converse of that rule as proper to be followed.†   (source)
  • They must be told that the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other.†   (source)
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