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English Dictionary: reduce |
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3 results for reduce |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- reduce
- v
- cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat
intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
Synonym(s): reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
- make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
- be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
Synonym(s): reduce, come down, boil down
- reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
Synonym(s): shrink, reduce
- lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
- make smaller; "reduce an image"
Synonym(s): reduce, scale down Antonym(s): blow up, enlarge, magnify
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
Synonym(s): deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce Antonym(s): oxidate, oxidise, oxidize
- narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
Synonym(s): reduce, tighten
- put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
Synonym(s): repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
- undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
Synonym(s): abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce Antonym(s): dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
Synonym(s): boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate
- cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
Synonym(s): reduce, boil down, concentrate
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
Synonym(s): dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
- take off weight
Synonym(s): reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down Antonym(s): gain, put on
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Reduce \Re*duce"\ (r[esl]*d[umac]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Reduced} (-d[umac]st"),; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reducing}
(-d[umac]"s[icr]ng).] [L. reducere, reductum; pref. red-.
re-, re- + ducere to lead. See {Duke}, and cf. {Redoubt}, n.]
1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
[Obs.]
And to his brother's house reduced his wife.
--Chapman.
The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the
great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his
delegates reduce and direct us. --Evelyn.
2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank,
size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to
lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to
the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to
reduce the intensity of heat. [bd]An ancient but reduced
family.[b8] --Sir W. Scott.
Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon
something belonging to it, to reduce it.
--Tillotson.
Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their
fears. --Milton.
Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which
she found the clergyman reduced. --Hawthorne.
3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to
capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: |
REDUCE
A {symbolic mathematics} language with
{ALGOL}-like {syntax}, written in {Lisp} by Anthony Hearn in
1963.
Reduce 2 is a version based on {Portable Standard LISP}.
{Home (http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/REDUCE/)}.
E-mail: .
Server: reduce-netlib@rand.org.
["REDUCE, Software for Algebraic Computation", G. Rayna,
Springer 1987].
(1994-10-31)
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