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Definition of derive : 1. To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
2. To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
3. To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; - followed by from.
4. To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo- Saxon.
5. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; - followed by to, into, on, upon.

Synonyms:

number, add up, componential analysis, upspring, decide, come by, recoup, reason, assay, fall, arrive at, appropriacy, settle, take in, aerate, total, canonical form, rise, realise, evoke, deduce, flow, come, advance, acquire, draw, gather, come from, deduct, derivative, get along, reach, make headway, elicit, bring, spring, excogitate, understand, guess, issue, calcify, draw out, win, find, judge, gain ground, deign, get together, derivation, subtract, condescend, conclude, behavior, issue forth, come down, make, pull in, profit, proceed, apposition, procure, affix, receive, balanced equation, extrapolate, determine, action, educe, realize, begin, obtain, reap, generalise, get ahead, bond, blend, stem, compound, benefit, earn, follow, emanate, evolve, builder, originate, infer, descend, behave, take, source, arise, hail, go down, take off, anaphora, start, origin, withhold, the carbon cycle, hit, extract, kin, assume, home, pull ahead, attain, spring from, gain, fare, generalize, put on, make out, come up, work out, occur, clear, do, adsorb, arrive, accept, come in, get, amount, bring in

Usage examples:

• Obviously by the sensations which I derive from it, and not otherwise. - "A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)", John Stuart Mill.
• That attack is largely the conscious expression of a revolt against a system that has long lost all touch with reality, and so has ceased to derive support from current life and thought. - "A Grammar of Freethought", Chapman Cohen.
• The general government and the State governments derive their authority from the same source. - "Select Speeches of Daniel Webster", Daniel Webster.