different between adduction vs adduce

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adductio, adductionis, from adduc? (“I bring to myself”), from ad + duc? (“I lead”). Compare French adduction. See adduce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?k.?n?/
• (anatomy sense): (for emphasis and disambiguation from abduction) IPA^(key): /?e?.?di?.d?k.?n?/

Noun

adduction (countable and uncountable, plural adductions)

1. The act of adducing or bringing forward.
   • I. Taylor

     an adduction of facts gathered from various quarters

2. (anatomy) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis; -- opposed to abduction.

Translations

References

• adduction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adductio, adductionem.

Pronunciation

Noun

adduction f (plural adductions)

1. adduction (all senses)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + ducere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d(j)u?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??dju?s/, /??d?u?s/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -u?s

Verb

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)

1. (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
   • 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840

     Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.

   • For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]

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Translations

References

• adduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “adduce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “adduce”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Italian

Verb

adduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of addurre

Anagrams

• deduca

Latin

Verb

add?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of add?c?

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ad(j)us/

Verb

adduce (third-person singular present adduces, present participle adducin, past adduced, past participle adduced)

1. to adduce
2. (law) to bring forth as proof

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.