- derivar de
- to come from, derive from* * *(v.) = strip from, be born of, proceed fromEx. Alternatively, the librarian may wish to purchase one of the wide range of products that other processors or generators may be stripping from the tape.Ex. According to Tolstoy, one's sadness is born of despair (sadness over the apparent meaninglessness of life or of life as one has lived it).Ex. Although nepotism is considered selfish, it proceeds from the generous impulse to pass something on to one's children, and this we think of as entirely praiseworth.* * *(v.) = strip from, be born of, proceed from
Ex: Alternatively, the librarian may wish to purchase one of the wide range of products that other processors or generators may be stripping from the tape.
Ex: According to Tolstoy, one's sadness is born of despair (sadness over the apparent meaninglessness of life or of life as one has lived it).Ex: Although nepotism is considered selfish, it proceeds from the generous impulse to pass something on to one's children, and this we think of as entirely praiseworth.
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.