Wednesday, July 17, 2019

How to express the source or cause of something

TO ARISE (FROM/OUT OF) = if something arises from or out of a situation, event etc, it is caused or started by that situation etc [= to result or proceed; spring or issue]

• Mental health disorders typically arise from an interaction between biological/psychological and social/enviromental factors
• Referential integrity constraints arise from relationships among the entities represented by the relation schema



TO STEM FROM (phrasal verb) = to develop as a result of something else [= to come from]

• A study provides the evidence that Syphilis stemmed from bacteria that originated in the New World.
• To prevent errors stemming from common mistakes, first try to make your HTML code validate.
• My problem about learning maven is that I have no experience with Ant, which seems to be from where many explanations stem.



TO DERIVE /dɪˈraɪv/ =

1 [intransitive, transitive] to develop or come from something else [= to come from]
• CORBA, Microsoft DCOM and Java RMI are example of distributed object systems and derive from Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) system for Distributed Computing Environment.
• These XML documents are derived from the W3C XML Schema Part 0: Primer, edited by David C. Fallside.

2 [transitive] to get something, especially an advantage or a pleasant feeling, from something [= to get]
• Of course, shoppers derive as much pleasure from the shopping activity as from the outcome of this activity.



TO ORIGINATE =

1 [intransitive + adverb/preposition] (formal) = to come from a particular place or start in a particular situation
• Mark-up originates in the publishing industry. In traditional publishing, the manuscript is annotated with layout instructions for the typesetter.These handwritten annotations are called mark-up.

2 [transitive] = to give origin or rise to [= to create; to introduce]
• In the Chen ER data model mapping guidelines, common nouns tend to originate entity type names


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