| VERB | cognition | deduct, subtract, take off | make a subtraction |
|---|---|---|---|
| possession | deduct, withhold, recoup | retain and refrain from disbursing | |
| cognition | deduct, deduce, infer, derive | reason by deduction |
| Sounds | dihdah'kt | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abduct ... viaduct: 19 rhymes with ahkt... | |
| Meaning | make a subtraction. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | subtract, take off | |
| Category | arithmetic | The branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations |
| Narrower | carry back | Deduct a loss or an unused credit from taxable income for a prior period |
| Broader | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure | make a mathematical calculation or computation |
| Opposite | add, add together | make an addition by combining numbers |
| Spanish | deducir, descontar, desgravar, extraer, quitar, restar, substraer, sustraer | |
| Catalan | desgravar, extraure, extreure, restar, sostraure, sostreure, treure | |
| Nouns | deduction | the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) |
| Meaning | Retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody | |
| Model | They deduct the money | |
| Synonyms | withhold, recoup | |
| Narrower | dock | Deduct from someone's wages |
| Broader | keep, hold on | Retain possession of |
| Spanish | deducir, descontar, desgravar, recobrar, retener | |
| Catalan | desgravar | |
| Adjectives | deductible | acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction) |
| Meaning | reason by deduction; establish by deduction. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Synonyms | deduce, infer, derive | |
| Category | logic, logical system, system of logic | A system of reasoning |
| Narrower | elicit | derive by reason |
| extrapolate | gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating | |
| surmise | infer / infer from incomplete evidence | |
| Broader | reason, reason out, conclude | decide by reasoning |
| Spanish | deducir, derivar, descontar, desgravar, inferir, provenir | |
| Catalan | deduir, desgravar, inferir, provenir | |
| Nouns | deduction | reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) |
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