Induce vs. Conduce — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Induce and Conduce
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Induce
Succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something
The pickets induced many workers to stay away
Conduce
To contribute or lead to a specific result
"The quiet conduces to thinking about the darkening future" (George F. Will).
Induce
Bring about or give rise to
None of these measures induced a change of policy
Conduce
To contribute or lead to a specific result.
Induce
Bring on (the birth of a baby) artificially, typically by the use of drugs
Induced labour
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Conduce
To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; - usually followed by to or toward.
He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both.
The reasons you allege do more conduceTo the hot passion of distemper'd blood.
Induce
Derive by inductive reasoning
From the experimental evidence, one infers or induces the hypothesis
Conduce
To conduct; to lead; to guide.
He was sent to conduce hither the princess.
Induce
To lead or move, as to a course of action, by influence or persuasion.
Conduce
Be conducive to;
The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing
Induce
To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of; cause
A drug used to induce labor.
Induce
To infer by inductive reasoning.
Induce
To produce (an electric current or a magnetic charge) by induction.
Induce
To produce (radioactivity, for example) artificially by bombardment of a substance with neutrons, gamma rays, and other particles.
Induce
(Biochemistry) To initiate or increase the production of (an enzyme or other protein) at the level of genetic transcription.
Induce
(Genetics) To cause an increase in the transcription of the RNA of (a gene).
Induce
(transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
Induce
(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
His meditation induced a compromise.
Opium induces sleep.
Induce
(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
Induce
To infer by induction.
Induce
To lead in, bring in, introduce.
Induce
To draw on, place upon. en
Induce
To lead in; to introduce.
The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad.
Induce
To draw on; to overspread.
Induce
To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to persuade; to move by persuasion or influence.
He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted.
Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation.
Induce
To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure; anaphylactic shock induced by exposure to a allergen.
Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves.
Induce
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.
Induce
To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; - the opposite of deduce.
Induce
To cause the expression of (a gene or gene product) by affecting a transcription control element on the genome, either by inhibiting a negative control or by activating a positive control; to derepress; as, lactose induces the production of beta-galactosidase in Eschericia coli..
Induce
Cause to arise;
Induce a crisis
Induce
Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner;
The ads induced me to buy a VCR
My children finally got me to buy a computer
My wife made me buy a new sofa
Induce
Cause to occur rapidly;
The infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions
Induce
Reason or establish by induction
Induce
Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
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