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dérive — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • derivative adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
  • drift noun A slow, gradual movement or change, often without direct control.
  • leeway noun Extra freedom or flexibility to act without strict limits.
  • offshoot noun Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
  • stream noun A small natural flow of water, smaller than a river.

Senses

dérive is used for these senses in English:

  • centreboard (British spelling, nautical) The adjustable keel on a small yacht or dinghy that acts, among other things, as ballast and to counteract the sideways force of the wind.
  • derivative Something derived.
  • derivative The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.
  • leeway The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.
  • offshoot Something which develops from something else.
  • stream (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.

derivative — full definition

  1. adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
  2. noun A financial contract whose value is based on an underlying asset, such as a stock or commodity.
  3. noun In mathematics, a measure of how a function's output changes as its input changes; the rate of change or slope.

drift — full definition

  1. noun A slow, gradual movement or change, often without direct control.
  2. noun A large mound of snow, sand, or debris piled up by wind or current.
  3. noun The general meaning or intention of something said.
  4. verb To move slowly and without control, carried by wind, water, or circumstance.

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