Derive

To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.

To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.

To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.

To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.

To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.

obtain from a particular source; "The present name derives from an older form"

reason by deduction; establish by deduction