REDUCE
\ɹɪdjˈuːs], \ɹɪdjˈuːs], \ɹ_ɪ_d_j_ˈuː_s]\
Definitions of REDUCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
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take off weight
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narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
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make smaller; "reduce an image"
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cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
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be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
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make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
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reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
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undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
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lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
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simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
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lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
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bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
By Princeton University
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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
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cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
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be cooked until very little is left; as of sauces; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
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remove oxygen from a compound, in chemistry
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take off weight
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narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
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make smaller; "reduce an image"
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reposition back to its normal site, as of a broken bone, in surgery
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
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To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
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To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
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To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
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To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
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To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
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To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
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To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
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To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
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To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
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To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
By Noah Webster.
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To make less in value, size, etc.; lessen; lower; as, to reduce the cost; bring from a higher to a lower position; degrade; as, to reduce an officer to the ranks; subdue; conquer; as, to reduce an enemy; bring into classes or orders; as, to reduce mankind to races; bring into a particular form or condition; as, reduce sugar to a syrup; in arithmetic, change (numbers or quantities) from one name or form to another without changing their value; as, to reduce gallons to pints; in chemistry, to take all nonmetallic elements out of (an ore); in surgery, to restore (a displaced part) to its right position; as, to reduce a fracture.
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Reducible.
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Reducer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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1. To replace, as the bowel in a hernia, the ends of a fractured bone, or a dislocation. 2. In chemistry to deoxidize, to restore an oxide to its metallic form. 3. To weaken.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To bring into a lower state: to lessen: to impoverish: to subdue: to arrange: (arith. and alg.) to change numbers or quantities from one denomination into another.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To bring to a former state; to bring to any state or condition; to diminish; to lower; to subdue; to bring into subjection; to bring into classes or under rules; to change from one denomination to another. To reduce to the ranks, to degrade a serjeant or corporal for misconduct to the station of a private soldier.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To bring into any state, particularly one made less or diminished; to degrade; to lessen; to subdue; to conquer; to class or arrange; to impoverish; to bring down; to make less in size, quantity, or value; in arith., alg., and logic, to bring from a form less fit, to one more fit, for the operation; in metallurgy, to convert an oxide or an ore into the metallic state, as by smelting; in surg., to restore to its proper place or state, as a dislocated bone.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.