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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg

Meaning of "induce" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INDUCE

From Latin indūcere to lead in, from dūcere to lead.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INDUCE

induce  [ɪnˈdjuːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDUCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Induce is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb induce in English.

WHAT DOES INDUCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Induce

Induce may refer to: ▪ Induction ▪ inducement rule a test a United States court can use to determine whether liability for copyright infringement committed by third parties could be assigned to the distributor of the device used to commit infringement. ▪ Inducement prize contest a competition that awards a cash prize for the accomplishment of a feat, usually of engineering.

Definition of induce in the English dictionary

The first definition of induce in the dictionary is to persuade or use influence on. Other definition of induce is to cause or bring about. Induce is also to initiate or hasten, as by administering a drug to stimulate uterine contractions.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INDUCE

PRESENT

Present
I induce
you induce
he/she/it induces
we induce
you induce
they induce
Present continuous
I am inducing
you are inducing
he/she/it is inducing
we are inducing
you are inducing
they are inducing
Present perfect
I have induced
you have induced
he/she/it has induced
we have induced
you have induced
they have induced
Present perfect continuous
I have been inducing
you have been inducing
he/she/it has been inducing
we have been inducing
you have been inducing
they have been inducing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I induced
you induced
he/she/it induced
we induced
you induced
they induced
Past continuous
I was inducing
you were inducing
he/she/it was inducing
we were inducing
you were inducing
they were inducing
Past perfect
I had induced
you had induced
he/she/it had induced
we had induced
you had induced
they had induced
Past perfect continuous
I had been inducing
you had been inducing
he/she/it had been inducing
we had been inducing
you had been inducing
they had been inducing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will induce
you will induce
he/she/it will induce
we will induce
you will induce
they will induce
Future continuous
I will be inducing
you will be inducing
he/she/it will be inducing
we will be inducing
you will be inducing
they will be inducing
Future perfect
I will have induced
you will have induced
he/she/it will have induced
we will have induced
you will have induced
they will have induced
Future perfect continuous
I will have been inducing
you will have been inducing
he/she/it will have been inducing
we will have been inducing
you will have been inducing
they will have been inducing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would induce
you would induce
he/she/it would induce
we would induce
you would induce
they would induce
Conditional continuous
I would be inducing
you would be inducing
he/she/it would be inducing
we would be inducing
you would be inducing
they would be inducing
Conditional perfect
I would have induce
you would have induce
he/she/it would have induce
we would have induce
you would have induce
they would have induce
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been inducing
you would have been inducing
he/she/it would have been inducing
we would have been inducing
you would have been inducing
they would have been inducing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you induce
we let´s induce
you induce
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to induce
Past participle
induced
Present Participle
inducing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDUCE


abduce
æbˈdjuːs
adduce
əˈdjuːs
circumduce
ˌsɜːkəmˈdjuːs
co-produce
ˌkəʊprəˈdjuːs
conduce
kənˈdjuːs
deduce
dɪˈdjuːs
educe
ɪˈdjuːs
introduce
ˌɪntrəˈdjuːs
outproduce
ˌaʊtprəˈdjuːs
overproduce
ˌəʊvəprəˈdjuːs
produce
prəˈdjuːs
reduce
rɪˈdjuːs
reinduce
ˌriːɪnˈdjuːs
reintroduce
ˌriːɪntrəˈdjuːs
reproduce
ˌriːprəˈdjuːs
seduce
sɪˈdjuːs
subintroduce
ˌsʌbɪntrəˈdjuːs
superinduce
ˌsuːpərɪnˈdjuːs
traduce
trəˈdjuːs
transduce
trænzˈdjuːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDUCE

indubitably
induced drag
inducement
inducer
induciae
inducibility
inducible
induct
inductance
inductee
inductile
inductility
induction
induction ceremony
induction coil
induction course
induction hardening
induction heating
induction loop
induction loop system

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDUCE

Bruce
cotransduce
dairy produce
deuce
douce
duce
farm produce
garden produce
lettuce
luce
mass-produce
photoreduce
puce
sale of produce
sauce
soy sauce
spruce
subduce
tomato sauce
underproduce

Synonyms and antonyms of induce in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INDUCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «induce» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of induce

Translation of «induce» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDUCE

Find out the translation of induce to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of induce from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «induce» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

引起
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inducir
570 millions of speakers

English

induce
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रेरित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لحث
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

побудить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

induzir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রবর্তিত করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

provoquer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Induce
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

herbeiführen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

引き起こす
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일으키다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Panggawe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguyên nhân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தூண்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेरित करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uyarmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

provocare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wywoływać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спонукати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

induce
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

επάγουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

veroorsaak
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

inducera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

indusere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of induce

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDUCE»

The term «induce» is very widely used and occupies the 15.294 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDUCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «induce» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «induce» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about induce

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10 QUOTES WITH «INDUCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word induce.
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Aldrich Ames
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
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Margaret Atwood
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
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Abdallah II of Jordan
Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
4
Benjamin Banneker
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
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Harold Bloom
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
6
Roger Clemens
If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
7
James Collins
A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.
8
Edward Dahlberg
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
9
Lawrence Halprin
Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.
10
Larry Harvey
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDUCE»

Discover the use of induce in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to induce and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience ...
The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as an agent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant to promote early production experience with such plants.
Frank Camm, James T. Bartis, Charles J. Bushman, 2008
2
General Relativistic Self-similar Waves that Induce an ...
"July 2012, volume 218, number 1025 (third of 5 numbers)."
Joel Smoller, Blake Temple, 2012
3
Rethinking physical and rehabilitation medicine: New ...
Re-education consists in training people injured either by illness or the vagaries of life to achieve the best functionality now possible for them.
Jean-Pierre Didier, Emmanuel Bigand, 2011
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Do Fixed Exchange Rates Induce More Fiscal Discipline?
Conventional wisdom has held that a fixed exchange rate regime induces more fiscal discipline, but Tornell and Velasco (1995, 1998) argue the opposite.
Yan Sun, 2003
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Can a Shorter Workweek Induce Higher Employment? Mandatory ...
A reduction in the legal workweek may induce a degree of downward wage flexibility, while an employment subsidy to firms accommodates downward wage rigidity.
S. Nuri Erbas, Chera L. Sayers, 1999
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The New excitement; or A book to induce young people to ...
THE LLAMA. A recent number of the Foreign Quarterly Review, puts its seal to the following affecting particulars respecting the llama, which it describes as authentic : — The llama is the only animal associated with man, and undebased by the ...
‎1839
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Brain-specific MicroRNAs Induce Neurogenesis Through ...
Described here is a putative network of interactions that arise from transcriptional activation of this locus, with the end result contributing to the induction of a neuronal phenotype.
Loyal Andrew Goff, 2008
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Ecclesiastical Communities and Their Ability to Induce Legal ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
John Patrick Cook, 2006
9
Does Financial Globalization Induce Better Macroeconomic ...
There is some evidence that financial globalization may have induced countries to pursue low-inflation monetary policies. However, there is no evidence that it has encouraged low budget deficits.
‎2004
10
The Effect of Music and Imagery to Induce Relaxation and ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of music and imagery versus imagery only interventions on inducing relaxation and reducing nausea and emesis in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment.
Maria Montserrat Gimeno i Domenech, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDUCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term induce is used in the context of the following news items.
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If the economy worsens, get ready for quantitative easing - Maclean's
In a balance-sheet recession, a bursting asset bubble means that low interest rates may no longer induce consumers already saddled with ... «Macleans.ca, Jul 15»
2
What I said about Exxon – Stoat - ScienceBlogs
Notice also cameo appearance from John McCarthy: It would take a lot to induce the chairman of Exxon to promote nuclear energy): >"Most of ... «ScienceBlogs, Jul 15»
3
Study Reveals E-Cigarette Vapor No More Dangerous Than Air …
... employing a combination of a smoking robot and a lab-based test using respiratory tissue, it was possible to demonstrate the ability to induce ... «Daily Caller, Jul 15»
4
Christian Organizations Are Losing Obamacare Birth Control …
... Care Act mandate requiring the Christian schools' health insurance providers to offer free birth control drugs that could induce an abortion to ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
5
Gwyneth Paltrow Teaches You How to Yawn Properly on Goop …
... and tension that may result from conversation and or the vicissitudes of the day." And you don't need to induce tearing for it to be helpful. «People Magazine, Jul 15»
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Royals win solo-home run fest, defeat White Sox 4-2 - Royals Review
But Madson was able to induce a pair of weak ground outs to end the threat and preserve the lead. Then it was H-D-H time, and the White Sox ... «Royals Review, Jul 15»
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WSJ: Fetal ultrasound procedures are often not medically justified …
... offering accurate estimates of when conception began and helping doctors make decisions during pregnancy like when to induce labor. «FierceMedicalDevices, Jul 15»
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Waugh: The missionary position at Lac Ste. Anne | Columnists …
We began crawling the jigs slowly along the bottom with short pauses thrown it to help induce a following walleye to pounce. I heard the ... «Edmonton Sun, Jul 15»
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Cellecta Wins NIH SBIR Grant to Develop Guide RNA Library for …
CRISPR/Cas9 involves the use of a specific enzyme to cause double-strand DNA breaks that induce gene silencing. The process can be ... «GenomeWeb, Jul 15»
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Eastern NC football coach suspended for a year | WNCN
Rule 1.2.1 states “no student shall be subjected to undue influence by an individual or group of individuals to induce or cause him to transfer ... «WNCN, Jul 15»

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