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
- adj Copying or imitating someone else's work rather than being original.
- noun A financial contract whose value is based on an underlying asset, such as a stock or commodity.
- 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
- noun A slow, gradual movement or change, often without direct control.
- noun A large mound of snow, sand, or debris piled up by wind or current.
- noun The general meaning or intention of something said.
- verb To move slowly and without control, carried by wind, water, or circumstance.