Elicit vs. Induce — What's the Difference?

To call forth, draw out, or provoke (a response or reaction, for example)

Succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something

To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

Bring about or give rise to

To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.

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

To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason

Derive by inductive reasoning

(obsolete) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of; cause

To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.

To infer by inductive reasoning.

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);

To produce (an electric current or a magnetic charge) by induction.

Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);

To produce (radioactivity, for example) artificially by bombardment of a substance with neutrons, gamma rays, and other particles.

Derive by reason;

(Biochemistry) To initiate or increase the production of (an enzyme or other protein) at the level of genetic transcription.

(Genetics) To cause an increase in the transcription of the RNA of (a gene).

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

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

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

To infer by induction.

To lead in, bring in, introduce.

To draw on, place upon. en

To lead in; to introduce.

To draw on; to overspread.

To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to persuade; to move by persuasion or influence.

To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure; anaphylactic shock induced by exposure to a allergen.

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.

To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; - the opposite of deduce.

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..

Cause to arise;

Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner;

Cause to occur rapidly;

Reason or establish by induction

Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes