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Induce vs. Entice — What's the Difference?

Induce vs. Entice — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Induce and Entice

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Induce

Succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something
The pickets induced many workers to stay away

Entice

Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage
A show which should entice a new audience into the theatre
The treat is offered to entice the dog to eat

Induce

Bring about or give rise to
None of these measures induced a change of policy

Entice

To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire
The good review enticed me to see the movie.

Induce

Bring on (the birth of a baby) artificially, typically by the use of drugs
Induced labour
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Entice

(transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.

Induce

Derive by inductive reasoning
From the experimental evidence, one infers or induces the hypothesis

Entice

To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.
Roses blushing as they blow,And enticing men to pull.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Go, and thine erring brother gain,Entice him home to be forgiven.

Induce

To lead or move, as to a course of action, by influence or persuasion.

Entice

Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion;
He lured me into temptation

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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