induce
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause to arise
induce a crisis
Types & categories
- generate hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
The ads induced me to buy a VCR
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- causal agent derivation
- causing derivation
- trigger derivation
- inducing derivation
- stimulation derivation
- stimulant derivation
- cause derivation
- cause derivation
- inducement derivation
- persuader derivation
- causative derivation
- inducive derivation
Sense 3 verb
cause to occur rapidly
the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions
Types & categories
- effect hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
reason or establish by induction
Types & categories
- reason hypernym
Related & opposite
- generalization derivation
- logical system domain topic
Sense 5 verb
produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
Types & categories
- give rise hypernym
Related & opposite
- inductance derivation
- physics domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inducing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | induction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | inducive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | generate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | causal agent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | causing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | trigger |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inducing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stimulation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stimulant |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cause |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cause |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inducement |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | persuader |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | causative |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inducive |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | decide |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | persuade |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bring |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | solicit |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | encourage |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | let |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | lead |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | prompt |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | suborn |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | oblige |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | inducing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | induction |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | effect |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | generalization |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | logical system |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | reason |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | inductance |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | physics |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | give rise |