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induce
English
Etymology
From Middle English enducen, borrowed from Latin ind?cere, present active infinitive of ind?c? (“lead in, bring in, introduce”), from in + d?c? (“lead, conduct”). Compare also abduce, adduce, conduce, deduce, produce, reduce etc. Doublet of endue.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?du?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?dju?s/
- Rhymes: -u?s
Verb
induce (third-person singular simple present induces, present participle inducing, simple past and past participle induced)
- (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
- (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
- (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
- (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
- (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
- (lead by persuasion or influence): entice, inveigle, put someone up to something
- (to cause): bring about, instigate, prompt, stimulate, trigger, provoke
Antonyms
- (logic): deduce
Related terms
Translations
References
- induce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “induce”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
Anagrams
- uniced
Italian
Verb
induce
- third-person singular indicative present of indurre
Latin
Verb
ind?ce
- second-person singular present active imperative of ind?c?
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ind?cere, present active infinitive of ind?c?, with senses based off French induire.
Verb
a induce (third-person singular present induce, past participle indus) 3rd conj.
- to induce, incite, cause or push to do something
Conjugation
Synonyms
- împinge, îndemna
Related terms
- duce
Spanish
Verb
induce
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of inducir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of inducir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of inducir.
induce From the web:
- what induces labor
- what induces period
- what induces labor naturally
- what induces sleep
- what induces sleep walking
- what induces ovulation
- what induces apoptosis
- what induces mutations
seek
English
Etymology
From Middle English seken (also sechen, whence dialectal English seech), from Old English s??an, with influence from Old Norse sœkja, whence the hard /k/ sound (compare beseech); both from Proto-Germanic *s?kijan? (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?g- (“to seek out”). Cognate with West Frisian sykje, Dutch zoeken, Low German söken, German suchen, Danish søge, Icelandic sækja, Norwegian Bokmål søke, Norwegian Nynorsk søkja, Swedish söka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?k/, s?k
- Homophone: Sikh
- Rhymes: -i?k
Verb
seek (third-person singular simple present seeks, present participle seeking, simple past and past participle sought)
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
- (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Luke xi. 16
- Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
- 1960, Lobsang Rampa, The Rampa Story:
- “My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Luke xi. 16
- (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
- 1880, George Q. Cannon, How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders, etc.:
- But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.
- 1886, Constantine Popoff, translation of Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe:
- I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
- 1880, George Q. Cannon, How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders, etc.:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
- Ryght so he sought […] towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes
- (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
- Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
- 1726 (tr.), Alexander Pope, Homer's Odyssey, Book II, line 33
- Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains
- (intransitive) To attempt, endeavour, try
- Our company does not seek to limit its employees from using the internet or engaging in social networking.
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate through a stream.
- Synonym: scrub
- 2009, Jit Ghosh, Rob Cameron, Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (page 541)
- Most of the changes made to this control are to accommodate the various constraints that playback of streaming media may impose in broadcast streams, such as the inability to seek through the media.
Quotations
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:seek.
Usage notes
- The word is sometimes used to mean "try" or "want". This usage is criticized by Fowler in the entry "Formal Words".
Synonyms
- look for
- search
Derived terms
Related terms
- hide and seek
- seeker
Translations
Noun
seek (plural seeks)
- (computing) The operation of navigating through a stream.
- 2012, Aidong Zhang, Avi Silberschatz, Sharad Mehrotra, Continuous Media Databases (page 120)
- The number of seeks to retrieve a shot […] depends on the location of those frames on physical blocks.
- 2012, Aidong Zhang, Avi Silberschatz, Sharad Mehrotra, Continuous Media Databases (page 120)
Anagrams
- eeks, ekes, kees, seke, skee
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German sêkhûs (“hospital”) (equivalent to sêk +? hûs). From Proto-West Germanic *seuk, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *seukaz (“sick”). Compare German Siechenhaus (“infirmary”), English sickhouse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?se?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
- Hyphenation: seek
Noun
seek (genitive seegi, partitive seeki)
- almshouse
- A residence and shelter for sick people in the Middle Ages.
- (colloquial) A nursing home, retirement home; poorhouse
Declension
References
- seek” in Sõnaveeb
seek From the web:
- what seek ye
- what seeking means
- what seek ye kjv
- what seek ye scripture
- what seek ye lds
- what seekest thou
- what seeketh thee
- what seekers bear are you
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