Induce

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To lead or move, as to a course of action, by influence or persuasion. See Synonyms at persuade.
  • v. To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of; cause: a drug used to induce labor.
  • v. To infer by inductive reasoning.
  • v. Physics To produce (an electric current or a magnetic charge) by induction.
  • v. Physics To produce (radioactivity, for example) artificially by bombardment of a substance with neutrons, gamma rays, and other particles.
  • v. Biochemistry To initiate or increase the production of (an enzyme or other protein) at the level of genetic transcription.
  • v. Genetics To cause an increase in the transcription of the RNA of (a gene).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
  • v. To cause, bring about, lead to.
  • v. To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
  • v. To infer by induction.
  • v. To lead in, bring in, introduce.
  • v. To draw on, place upon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To lead in; to introduce.
  • v. To draw on; to overspread.
  • v. To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to persuade; to move by persuasion or influence.
  • v. To bring on; to effect; to cause.
  • v. To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.
  • v. To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.
  • v. To cause the expression of (a gene or gene product) by affecting a transcription control element on the genome, either by inhibiting a negative control or by activating a positive control; to derepress.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To lead in; bring in; introduce.
  • To draw on; place upon.
  • To lead by persuasion or influence; prevail upon; incite.
  • To lead to; bring about by persuasion or influence; bring on or produce in any way; cause: as, his mediation induced a compromise; opium induces sleep.
  • In physics, to cause or produce by proximity without contact or apparent transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body which is in an opposite electric or magnetic state.
  • To infer by induction.
  • Synonyms and Impel, Induce, etc. See actuate, and list under incite.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
  • v. reason or establish by induction
  • v. cause to occur rapidly
  • v. cause to arise
  • v. cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
  • Antonym
    deduce   
    Verb Form
    induced    induces    inducing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    give rise    bring about    produce    conclude    reason    reason out    effect    set up    effectuate    generate   
    Cross Reference
    cause    infer   
    Hyponym
    decide    let    solicit    lead    bring    compel    suborn    encourage    instigate    persuade   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    introduce    overspread    influence    incite    persuade    effect    cause    derepress    trigger    instigate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bruce    Chartreuse    Duce    Luce    Seuss    Spruce    Zeus    abstruse    abuse    boose   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts