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Antonyms for deducing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : dih-doos, -dyoos
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈdus, -ˈdyus

Definition of deducing

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Latin deducere "lead down, derive" (in Medieval Latin, "infer logically"), from de- "down" (see de-) + ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Originally literal; sense of "draw a conclusion from something already known" is first recorded 1520s, from Medieval Latin. Related: Deduced; deducing.
  • verb figure out, understand
Example sentences :
  • “I learned about deducing when I was in the scouts,” said Tom.
  • Extract from : « Tom Slade on a Transport » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • But this did not lead them to deducing their rules from the great masters.
  • Extract from : « Contemporary American Composers » by Rupert Hughes
  • A statement may be disproved by deducing logically from it a conclusion that is ——.
  • Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald
  • Let us see how his personality squares with the personality we have been deducing.
  • Extract from : « The Air Pirate » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • Reason is the faculty of deducing the particular from the general.
  • Extract from : « A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' » by Norman Kemp Smith
  • Even that is less absurd than the conceit of deducing the Divine being?
  • Extract from : « Anima Poet » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?
  • Extract from : « Leviathan » by Thomas Hobbes
  • And how irrefragably she had been deducing from it all, syllogism after syllogism, the non-existence of evil!
  • Extract from : « Hypatia » by Charles Kingsley
  • It would be, perhaps, desirable to end by deducing some definite moral.
  • Extract from : « Social Rights And Duties » by Leslie Stephen
  • And she had kept eyes and ears open to these, deducing inferences from them.
  • Extract from : « The Soul of Susan Yellam » by Horace Annesley Vachell

Synonyms for deducing

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