单词 | derivation |
释义 | derivationn.1 a. The action or process of leading or carrying a current of water, or the like, from a source, to another part; concrete a branch of a river, etc. by which such a drawing off is effected. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > [noun] conduit1555 hydragogy1570 leading1570 derivation1607 conductiona1613 conduct1847 pipage1883 leading1890 pipelining1942 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 678 They bite all the vessels reaching to the stomacke, making a deriuation of all those ill humours into the belly and other parts. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 114 Plinie in the deriuation of water, requireth one cubit of declining, in 240 foot of proceeding. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 56 Plenty of Vessels for the derivation of Air to all their parts. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved x. 158 This..will occasion a greater Derivation..of Blood to that Leg. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xxiv. 693 The fleet passed from the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river. 1800 E. Darwin Phytologia 417 The necessary moisture..which was formerly supplied by artificial derivations of water. 1835 T. De Quincey in Tait's Edinb. Mag. 2 80 The great national fountain shall not be a stagnant reservoir, but by an endless derivation, (to speak in a Roman metaphor!) applied to a system of national irrigation. b. The action of conveying or leading away (in a current); diversion; an instance of this; cf. derived circuit at derived adj. c. ΚΠ 1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) i. i. 98 The derivation of blood from the brain reduces the cerebral excitement. 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Derivation wire, the wire along which a derived electric current is drawn. 1885 R. S. Culley Handbk. Pract. Telegr. (ed. 8) 41 The new path opened to the current is called a derived circuit or derivation, or, properly, a fault. c. Medicine. The withdrawal of inflammation or morbid humour from a diseased part of the body, by blistering, cupping or other means. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > dispersing, etc., of humours or morbid matter resolvinga1398 attractiona1400 resolutiona1400 repercussion?a1425 eduction?c1425 discussion1583 repulsion1583 epicrasis1592 derivation1600 expurgation1615 attractation1616 incision1626 diversion1656 dispersion1753 1600 W. Vaughan Nat. & Artific. Direct. Health (1633) 165 To use revulsions and derivations to withdraw some of the fumes and vapours. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 85 By..derivations, as opening a vein and Ligatures to take away the flux. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. 7 Derivation differs from Revulsion onely in the measure of the distance, and the force of the medicines used. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 185 These effects of topical blood-letting are expressed in some of the older medical writings by the terms Derivation and Revulsion. d. Music. Borrowing, in an organ: see borrow v.1 2c. ΚΠ 1905 T. Casson Pedal Organ 22 It is true that they often call the borrowing by another name, such as ‘transmission’, ‘derivation’ and even ‘duplication’, but that is not straightforward. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [noun] > transmission or passing on > passing on or being passed on from a source derivation1597 deriving1607 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lvi. 126 What communion Christ hath with his Church..is in him by originall deriuation. 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 386 He therefore plotted..a deriuation to himselfe of the kingly Diademe. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 196 In human generation the son is begotten in the same nature with the father, which is performed by derivation or decision of part of the substance of the parent. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) ix. 108 There is both a derivation of Righteousness, and a Communication of Inward Holiness transferred to us through Christ. 3. The action of drawing, obtaining, or deducing from a source. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > origination or derivation > action of deriving from a source derivement1593 deriving1607 derivage1610 deduction1612 derivation1660 1660 T. Willsford Scales Commerce & Trade 39 But suppose this proportion not known, but by derivation, to be collected from others. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. v. 14 Christ himself is the Light of the World by way of Original, his Ministers are Lights by way of Derivation and Participation from him. 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism v. 214 A continued derivation of doctrines from the Apostles. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 396 There was no real derivation of English law from Normandy. 4. Origination or coming forth from a source; extraction, origin, descent. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > origination or derivation originalc1425 originationc1443 offspringa1500 origin1528 descent1532 outspring1538 breeding1549 pedigree1566 exorture1578 genesis1604 edition1605 derivation1609 elementing1638 procedure1651 ingeneration1652 originacy1659 filiation1799 upgrowth1844 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 79 My deriuation was from ancestors, who stood equiuolent with mightie Kings. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. iii. 74 As good a man as your selfe, both in the disciplines of Warre, and in the deriuation of my Birth. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ii. 14 That al Languages and Leters had their derivation from the Hebrew. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxi. 186 Why hast thou asked My derivation? 1805 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals 48 If..we attend to its relations with the other crystals of the same mineral, and also to its derivation, from these, it is described derivatively. 1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. iv. 56 ‘The Son was—of God’, showing his derivation. 5. A derived product; a derivate, a derivative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else daughtereOE outcasting1340 impc1380 childa1398 outgrowing?a1425 proventc1451 provenuec1487 excrescency1545 sprig1575 procedure?1577 proceed1578 derivative1593 offspring1596 superfetation1603 excression1610 shootc1610 excretion1615 slip1627 excrescence1633 derivation1641 derivate1660 offshoot1801 offtracta1806 deduction1835 outgrowth1837 1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 17 The Father is the whole substance, but the Son a derivation, and portion of the whole. 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 6 in Scepsis Scientifica Most of them are not the genuine derivations of the Hypothesis they claim to. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. i. 6 Al human Arts and Sciences are but beams and derivations from the Fountain of Lights. 1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 10 410 The Nicolaitans, who were a derivation from the Gnostics. 6. Grammar. a. Formation of a word from a more primitive word or root in the same or another language; origination as a derivative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation derivation1530 declension1678 zero derivation1960 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 68 Derivatyon or formation, that is to saye, substantyves somtyme be fourmed of other substantyves. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 2 b As though our language were so barren, that it were not able of it selfe, or by derivation to affoord convenient words. 1697 J. Locke Let. to Bp. of Worcester 43 Your Lordship here seems to dislike my taking notice, That the Derivation of the Word Substance favours the Idea we have of it: And your Lordship tells me, That very little Weight is to be laid on a bare Grammatical Etymology. 1823 W. Hone Anc. Myst. Described 147 Better qualified to discover and explain the derivation and meaning of Hearne's word. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. 87 The relics of forgotten derivations..are scattered thickly through every part of our vocabulary. b. The tracing of the origin of a word from its ‘root’ or radical elements; a statement or account (or, loosely, a conjecture) of the origin and formation of a word. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > etymology > statement or account of notation1570 etymology1575 derivationa1599 origination1614 derival1871 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 24, in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) I know not whether the words bee English or Irish..the Irishmen can make no derivation of them. 1605 R. Carew in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 99 His derivation of the English names doth not please me least. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 10 The learned Abbot..will not allow these Derivations to be well grounded. 1831 W. Scott Peveril (new ed.) App. Introd. p. xxv, (note) [Stipula, a straw] Perhaps a more feasible etymology of stipulation, than the usual derivation from stipes. 1851 R. C. Trench Study of Words (1869) vii. 264 Other derivations proposed by him are far more absurd than this. c. Transformational Grammar. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1957 N. Chomsky Syntactic Struct. iv. 29 Given the grammar [Σ, F], we define a derivation as a finite sequence of strings, beginning with an initial string of Σ, and with each string in the sequence being derived from the preceding string by application of one of the instruction formulas of F. 1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. ii. 15 A derivation..is a sequence of strings of symbols of which the first string is an initial string and in which every string follows from the preceding one by the application of a rule. 7. Mathematics. The operation of passing from any function to any related function which may be considered or treated as its derivative; spec. the operation of finding the derivative or differential coefficient, differentiation. ΚΠ 1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 608 We have already determined the law of derivation in the most common functions. 8. Biology. The theory of evolution of organic forms: see evolution n. 8. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of genetics or evolution theory of preformation1756 Darwinizing1807 development hypothesis1845 generationism1847 theory of evolution1858 Darwinism1860 Darwinianism1861 monogenesis1864 monogenism1865 monogeny1865 pangenesis1868 evolutionism1869 phylogeny1869 polygenism1871 derivation1874 phylogenesis1875 transformism1878 biogenetic law1879 gastraea theory1879 fortuitism1881 organicism1883 hereditism1884 kinetogenesis1884 Lamarckianism1884 Lamarckism1884 neo-Lamarckianism1884 monogenesy1885 neo-Lamarckism1887 preformationism1890 neo-Darwinism1891 blastogenesis1893 Haeckel-ismus1894 Weismannism1894 preformism1895 Haeckelism1899 mutation theory1902 directivity1903 Mendelianism1903 Mendelism1903 hereditarianism1906 mutationism1912 selectionism1912 hologenesis1931 parsimony1931 Morganism1934 Lysenkoism1948 neutralism1972 punctuated equilibrium1972 saltationism1975 punctuationism1977 punctuationalism1978 adaptationism1980 geneticism1984 adaptationalism1985 1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. I. ii. ix. 442 According to the doctrine of derivation, the more complex plants and animals are the slowly modified descendants of less complex plants and animals, and these in turn were the slowly modified descendants of still less complex plants and animals, and so on until we converge to those primitive organisms which are not definable either as animal or as vegetal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). derivationn.2 Gunnery. The deviation of a projectile from its normal course due to its form, motion, the resistance of the air, or wind; spec. the constant inclination of a projectile to the right due to the right-hand spin imparted by the rifling; drift. ΚΠ 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 386 The bullet in its improved form..has no tendency to the gyrations which appear to have so puzzled French artillerists, and for which they have invented the word ‘derivation’ and wasted much learned disquisition. 1883 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. II. ii Derivation, the peculiar constant deviation of an elongated projectile from a rifled gun. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.11530n.21875 |
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