Word Meanings - INDUCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. (more info) 1. To lead in; to introduce. The
Additional info about word: INDUCE
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. (more info) 1. To lead in; to introduce. The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. Pope. 2. To draw on; to overspread. Cowper. 3. To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence. Shak. He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted. Paley. Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation. Dryden. 4. To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure. Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves. Bacon.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDUCE)
- Actuate
- Urge
- instigate
- stir
- induce
- influence
- incline
- dispose
- incite
- impel
- prompt
- drive
- Attract
- Influence
- tempt
- allure
- charm
- fascinate
- invite
- entice
- Bring
- Fetch
- procure
- convey
- carry
- bear
- adduce
- import
- produce
- cause
- Draw
- Drag
- pull
- attract
- haul
- inhale
- sketch
- delineate
- describe
- Entail
- Bequeath
- leave
- devolve
- demise
- involve
- necessitate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INDUCE)
Related words: (words related to INDUCE)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - INVITER
One who, or that which, invites. - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - INDUCER
One who, or that which, induces or incites. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - INACTUATE
To put in action. - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - OVERBROW
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth. - SUBBRONCHIAL
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.