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in⋅duce

  [in-doos, -dyoos]
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–verb (used with object), -duced, -duc⋅ing.
1. to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
2. to bring about, produce, or cause: That medicine will induce sleep.
3. Physics. to produce (an electric current) by induction.
4. Logic. to assert or establish (a proposition about a class of phenomena) on the basis of observations on a number of particular facts.
5. Genetics. to increase expression of (a gene) by inactivating a negative control system or activating a positive control system; derepress.
6. Biochemistry. to stimulate the synthesis of (a protein, esp. an enzyme) by increasing gene transcription.
Origin:
1325–75; ME < L indūcere to lead or bring in, introduce, equiv. to in- in- 2 + dūcere to lead; cf. adduce, deduce, reduce

Related forms:
in⋅duc⋅i⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. actuate, prompt, incite, urge, spur. See persuade.

Antonyms:
1. dissuade.
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in·duce   (ĭn-dōōs', -dyōōs')   
tr.v.   in·duced, in·duc·ing, in·duc·es
  1. To lead or move, as to a course of action, by influence or persuasion. See Synonyms at persuade.
  2. To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of; cause: a drug used to induce labor.
  3. To infer by inductive reasoning.
  4. Physics
    1. To produce (an electric current or a magnetic charge) by induction.
    2. To produce (radioactivity, for example) artificially by bombardment of a substance with neutrons, gamma rays, and other particles.
  5. Biochemistry To initiate or increase the production of (an enzyme or other protein) at the level of genetic transcription.
  6. Genetics To cause an increase in the transcription of the RNA of (a gene).

[Middle English inducen, from Old French inducer, from Latin indūcere : in-, in; see in-2 + dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]
in·duc'i·ble adj.
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Induce

In*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Induced; p. pr. & vb. n. Inducing.] [L. inducere, inductum; pref. in- in + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Induct.]

1. To lead in; to introduce. [Obs.]

The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. --Pope.

2. To draw on; to overspread. [A Latinism] --Cowper.

3. To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence. --Shak.

He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted. --Paley.

Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation. --Dryden.

4. To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.

Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves. --Bacon.

5. (Physics) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.

6. (Logic) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.

Syn: To move; instigate; urge; impel; incite; press; influence; actuate.
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induce 
c.1375, "to lead by persuasions or other influences," from L. inducere "lead into, persuade," from in- "in" + ducere "to lead" (see duke). Meaning "to bring about," of concrete situations, etc., is from 1413; sense of "to infer by reasoning" is from 1563. Electro-magnetic sense first recorded 1777.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: in·duce
Pronunciation: in-'d(y)üs
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: in·duced; in·duc·ing
1 : to cause or bring about induced by drugs> induce gross malformation in the young —AmericanaAnnual>: as a (1) : to cause the embryological formation of induces lens tissue in the adjacent ectoderm> (2) : to cause to formthrough embryonic induction <induce ectoderm to form a neural tube> b : to cause or initiate by artificial means <induced abortion> <inducedlabor>
2 : to produce anesthesia in induced by a mixture of thiopental and curare>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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induce in·duce (ĭn-d&oomacr;s', -dy&oomacr;s')
v. in·duced, in·duc·ing, in·duc·es

  1. To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of something, such as labor.
  2. To initiate or increase the production of an enzyme or other protein at the level of genetic transcription.
  3. To produce an electric current or a magnetic charge by induction.

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