elicit

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I pinged John on Twitter with a link to elicit an answer.

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call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

verb

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

verb

derive by reason; "elicit a solution"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for elicit.

verb

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

See also: arouse, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke

verb

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

verb

derive by reason; "elicit a solution"

Example sentences

I pinged John on Twitter with a link to elicit an answer.

No. It's two nouns combined to elicit a prescribed response.

I'm kind of amazed that a story like this can _still_ elicit negative responses here.

These are not reactions I have seen the other bots elicit, certainly not with such intensity.

Or is it that fine-grained funding is more compelling and will thus elicit more donations?

We ask leading questions designed to elicit both; you can probably pick them out pretty easily.

There are gaps where its obvious that the author did something to elicit a reaction, but what that was is omitted from the story.

These are almost never the most interesting parts of new product releases but will elicit the predictable "pfft, Thomas Edison did it in 1913...".

You're describing a Rosa Parks strategy -- do the minimum necessary to break an unjust law in order to elicit punishment, and therefore draw attention to the law's unjustness.

" If the cop tells you that your lawyer is on his/her way and then continues to talk to you, you should say "I see you continue to talk to me, I am going to assume that you are trying to elicit statements from me after I invoked my rights.

The Mafia collects people with missing limbs and other disfigurations, basically the people who will elicit the greatest sympathy, and forces them to sit on the same corners begging day after day, month after month and year after year - and turn all of the money they collect over to them.