English Dictionary

induce

/ɪnˈduːs/

verb

(transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon. / (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.

Her speech induced the audience to applaud.

意味（1）

(transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

意味（2）

(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.

His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.

意味（3）

(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.

意味（4）

(transitive, logic) To infer by induction.

意味（5）

(transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.

意味（6）

(transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon.