deducir — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deduce verb To work out a conclusion through logical reasoning based on known facts or evidence.
- elicit verb To draw out a response, reaction, or piece of information from someone, often through careful questioning.
- glean verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.
- guess verb To form an answer or opinion without being sure it's correct.
Senses
deducir is used for these senses in English:
- deduce (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
- elicit To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.
- figure out (informal) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- glean To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.
- guess To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.