different between adjudge vs deduce

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French ajugier, from Latin adiudicare. Doublet of adjudicate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d??d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Verb

adjudge (third-person singular simple present adjudges, present participle adjudging, simple past and past participle adjudged)

1. To declare to be.
2. To deem or determine to be.
3. To award judicially; to assign.
   • 19th c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage

     What doth the poor man's son inherit?

     Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,

     A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,

     Content that from employment springs

Related terms

• abjudge
• adjudicate
• judge

Translations

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English deducen (“to demonstrate, prove, show; to argue, infer; to bring, lead; to turn (something) to a use; to deduct”), borrowed from Latin d?d?cere, the present active infinitive of d?d?c? (“to lead or bring out or away; to accompany, conduct, escort; (figuratively) to derive, discover, deduce”); from d?- (prefix meaning ‘from, away from’) + d?cere (the present active infinitive of d?c? (“to conduct, guide, lead; to draw, pull; to consider, regard, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to lead; to draw, pull”)).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

deduce (third-person singular simple present deduces, present participle deducing, simple past and past participle deduced)

1. (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.

   Synonyms: conclude, infer

   Antonym: induce
2. (transitive) To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.
3. (transitive, archaic) To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To be derived or obtained from some source.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).
6. (transitive, obsolete, based on the word’s Latin etymon) To lead (something) forth.

Usage notes

• Regarding sense 1 (“to reach (a conclusion)”), for example, from the premises “all good people believe in the tooth fairy” and “Jimmy does not believe in the tooth fairy”, we deduce the conclusion “Jimmy is not a good person”. This particular form of deduction is called a syllogism. Note that in this case we reach a false conclusion by correct deduction from a false premise.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• diduce (obsolete)

Derived terms

• deducement (obsolete)
• deducing (noun)
• deducive (rare)

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• deductive reasoning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• deuced, educed

Italian

Verb

deduce

1. third-person singular indicative present of dedurre

Latin

Verb

d?d?ce

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin deducere, French déduire, with conjugation based on duce.

Verb

a deduce (third-person singular present deduce, past participle dedus) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to infer, deduce (to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence)

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

deduce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of deducir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of deducir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of deducir.