Reduce : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Reduce	by the DICT Development Group
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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reduce \Reduce"\ (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.
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)