different between congregate vs deduce

English

Etymology

From Latin congregatus, past participle of congregare (“to congregate”), from con- (“with, together”) + gregare (“to collect into a flock”), from grex (“flock, herd”). See gregarious.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.???.?e?t/

Adjective

congregate (comparative more congregate, superlative most congregate)

1. (rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II, Chapter IX:

     With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.

Verb

congregate (third-person singular simple present congregates, present participle congregating, simple past and past participle congregated)

1. (transitive) To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to bring into one place, or into a united body

   Synonyms: amass, assemble, compact, bring together, gather, mass; see also Thesaurus:round up

   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.

   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection

     Cold congregates all bodies.
2. (intransitive) To come together; to assemble; to meet.

   Synonyms: assemble, begather, forgather; see also Thesaurus:assemble

Related terms

• congregation

Translations

Italian

Verb

congregate

1. second-person plural present indicative of congregare
2. second-person plural imperative of congregare
3. feminine plural of congregato

Anagrams

• conteggerà

Latin

Verb

congreg?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of congreg?

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.