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According to the context in which it is used, the word derive will present different meanings.

When something or someone has a specific and known origin, or failing that they come from something, the term derive is used to account for this. The decision to follow the race from Medicine derives from the fact of belonging to a family of doctors, from great-grandfather to father, are doctors.

In the field of Marine The use of the term derive is very common, since with it one realizes the deviation suffered on its course by a particular vessel or vessel. The boat continues adrift. His boat drifted south.

On the other hand, it is usual to use the word when you want to refer that something or someone that was going for a certain cause have been directed or have been led by another totally different path. As a consequence of his specialty, the orthopedic surgeon could not treat me and referred me to a clinical doctor to take care of the causes of my headache..
He was referred to another sanatorium because the one where he was taken after the accident had no more beds available

Meanwhile, in the field of Grammar, derive implies the training from one word to another changing its shape.

And in the context of math deriving involves obtaining a derivative of a mathematical function; more precisely in calculus, which is a branch of mathematics, the derivative is in charge of representing how a function changes to as its input is modified, that is, the derivative allows us to know how much the value of a function is changing at a point dice.