Synonyms of the word

derivation

• n. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
• n. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition,…
• n. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy.
• n. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
• n. That from which a thing is derived.
• n. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
• n. (mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called…
• n. (medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a…

account

• n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
• n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
• n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
• n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• n. An authorization to use a service.
• n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• n. Profit; advantage.
• v. to provide explanation.
• v. to count.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

ancestry

• n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
• n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

deriving

• v. present participle of derive.

drawing

• v. present participle of draw.
• n. A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
• n. (uncountable) The act of producing such a picture.
• n. Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
• n. The process of drawing or pulling something.
• n. An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of…
• n. A small portion of tea for steeping.

etymologizing

• v. present participle of etymologize.

explanation

• n. The act or process of explaining.
• n. Something that explains, makes understandable.
• n. (euphemistic) An excuse, apologetic justification not based on enough evidence.

filiation

• n. (uncountable) The condition of being a child of a specified parent.
• n. (countable) The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline.
• n. (countable, law) The determination of paternity.
• n. (countable, law) One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot.

illation

• n. The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.

inference

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
• n. (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed…

inheritance

• n. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
• n. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
• n. (biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
• n. (programming, object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts…

lineage

• n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line…
• n. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

source

• n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
• n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
• n. A reporter's informant.
• n. (computing) Source code.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
• v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…