All 5 Uses of
derive
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Although the Doctor's daughter had known nothing of the country of her birth, she appeared to have innately derived from it that ability to make much of little means, which is one of its most useful and most agreeable characteristics.†
Chpt 2.6 *derived = got
- Nor would it have been an expectation of a hopeful kind, since a small part of his income was derived from the pilotage of timid women (mostly of a full habit and past the middle term of life) from Tellson's side of the tides to the opposite shore.†
Chpt 2.14
- The light in the guard-house, half derived from the waning oil-lamps of the night, and half from the overcast day, was in a correspondingly uncertain condition.†
Chpt 3.1
- It chanced that they derived a kind of security from the patriotic occupation of the main building, but the true-hearted old gentleman never calculated about that.†
Chpt 3.2
- Both her hearers derived a horrible enjoyment from the deadly nature of her wrath—the listener could feel how white she was, without seeing her—and both highly commended it.†
Chpt 3.12
Definition:
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.)
(If the context doesn't otherwise indicate where something came from, it is generally from reasoning--especially deductive reasoning.)