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induce (iou) and hip(3) (iou)


induce (iou)



induce verb trans. Also enduce. LME.
[Latin inducere, formed as IN-2 + ducere lead, or from French enduire (cf. ENDUE).]
Lead, persuade, influence (a person). Foll. by to do something, (now rare) to an action, condition, etc. LME.
nothing will induce me to I will never be persuaded to .
Burke To induce us to this, Mr. Fox laboured hard. G. Greene The twist in Dr Downman's character which induced him to put into blank verse his advice. K. M. E. Murray I am tired and am trying to induce someone to carry me.
Introduce (a practice, law, condition, etc.). Foll. by into. LME-M19.
b. Introduce by way of argument or illustration; adduce, quote. LME-M17.
c. Introduce or present (a person); bring in as a character in a literary work. L15-M18.
Bring about, produce, give rise to. LME.
Nature 224Ra with a short..half life induces in man chiefly osteosarcomas. D. du Maurier Endeavoured to induce in me his passion for the planting of rare shrubs. J. Halifax Shamanistic trance, frequently induced by powerful hallucinogens.
b. Physics. Produce (an electric current, a magnetic state) by induction. L18.
c. Medicine. Initiate (labour) artificially; bring on labour in (a mother), accelerate the birth of (a child). M19.
absol.: S. Kitzinger Some hospitals induce if the baby is as much as a week 'overdue'.
d. Microbiology. Cause (a bacterium containing a prophage) to begin the lytic cycle. M20.
Introduce (a person) to a subject; initiate (into), accustom to; instruct, teach. L15-M16.
Lead to as a conclusion; suggest, imply. L15-M17.
Infer; derive by reasoning from particular facts. M16.
Science From a sufficient number of results a proposition or law is induced.
Put (up)on or over as a covering. M16-L18.
inducer noun a person who or thing which induces; esp. an agent that brings about induction: M16.

hip(3) (iou)



hip noun2. .
[Old English heope, hiope, corresp. to Old Saxon hiopo (Dutch joop), Old High German hiufa (German Hiefe), from West Germanic.]
The fruit of the (esp. wild) rose.
J. H. B. Peel Country lanes are lined..with hips and haws.