Word Finder - reduce

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To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

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to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.

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To lose weight.

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To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

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Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.

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To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

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to reduce a province or a fort

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To bring to an inferior state or condition.

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to reduce a city to ashes

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To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

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To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

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To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

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To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

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To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.

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To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form

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To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)

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It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.

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To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

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To reform a line or column from (a square).

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To strike off the payroll.

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To annul by legal means.

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To translate (a book, document, etc.).

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a book reduced into English

He began first a short ascent, then a drop to a sharp curve he nearly missed, causing him to reduce his speed further.

The statement didn't reduce Burgess's concern an iota.

Inversnaid was the site of a fort built in 1713 to reduce the clan to subjection.

Separating might increase the risks for some, but it would reduce the risk of everyone being captured.

This high carrying capacity has worked in several ways to reduce the cost of transportation.

There is a tendency to reduce the rate on real property, leaving it as a basis for local taxation.

Reduce the number of fires caused by arson each year.

In Asia Minor he was unable to reduce Bithynia or the Persian dynasties which ruled in Cappadocia.

The Ghibelline honestly believes that the Guelphs will reduce society to chaos.

Sodium amalgam or zinc and hydrochloric acid reduce it to lactic acid, whilst hydriodic acid gives propionic acid.

A small local abattoir is used to reduce travel time.

Unfortunately (perhaps) Butler prefers to argue on admitted principles; holds much of his own moral belief in reserve; tries to reduce everything to a question of probable fact.

To make it faster, reduce the capacitance to 10% of original value (10 mfd ).

The forces on this reduce to three, viz.

How can I reduce the cost of solder by 60 %?

The effect was to reduce to a minimum the risk of the introduction of disease amongst the herds and flocks of the country, and at the same time to confine the trade in store stock exclusively to the breeders of Great Britain and Ireland.

From October the military operations were confined to attempts to reduce guerrilla commandos which had taken the field.

But, Raids by unable to reduce it, and threatened on all sides, he turned back.

To reduce such land to a fit state for the growth of arable crops is very difficult and slow without resort to paring and burning.

The fire should be kept as thin and bright as possible, to reduce the amount of smoke in the upcast.

Charles in vain strove to reduce her to tame submission.

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The authors argue that policies which shift more costs of non-marital childbearing to men reduce non-marital childbearing.

If the eye, provided if necessary with a perforated plate in order to reduce the aperture, be situated inside the shadow at a place where the illumination is still sensible, and be focused upon the diffracting edge, the light which it receives will appear to come from the neighbourhood of the edge, and will present the effect of a silver lining.

Iron, zinc, cadmium, also tin under certain conditions, reduce the dilute acid, partially at least, to nitrous oxide, N 2 0, or ammonium nitrate, NH4N03.

The new baby wouldn't reduce their love for Destiny.

A national amnesty to reduce the number of knives on the streets is running from May 24 to June 30.

Wearing a hat with a broad brim can also help reduce problems from bright light.

Two years later (668 B.C.) Egypt revolted, and while on the march to reduce it, Esar-haddon fell ill and died (on the 10th of Marchesvan or October).

Cane sugar has no reducing power and does not form an hydrazone or osazone; the other varieties, however, reduce Fehling's solution and form hydrazones and osazones, behaving as aldoses, i.e.

Nevertheless, it has been found in practice, when syrups with low quotient of purity and high quotient of impurity are being treated, injecting the feed at a number of different points in the pan does reduce the time required to boil the pan, though of no practical advantage with syrups of high quotient of purity and free from the viscosity which impedes circulation and therefore quick boiling.

These organisms reduce nitrates to nitrites and finally to ammonia and gaseous free nitrogen which escapes into the atmosphere.

Such a material would not only have an influence on the texture of the land but the lime would reduce the sourness of the land and the phosphate of lime supply one of the most valuable of plant foodconstituents.

Nowadays the mould-board is of steel with a chilled and polished surface to give greater wearing qualities and to reduce friction.

The impossibility of working with just sufficient carbon to reduce the alumina, without using any excess which would be free to, ix.

Konitz was the first fortified post established in Prussia by Hermann Balk, who in 1230 had been commissioned as Landmeister, by the grand-master of the Teutonic order, to reduce the heathen Prussians.

In June Clinton returned to New York, leaving Cornwallis in command, with instructions to reduce North Carolina also.

The measures by which the government of India chiefly endeavours to reduce the liability of the country to famine are the promotion of railways; the extension of canal and well irrigation; the reclamation of waste lands, with the establishment of fuel and fodder reserves; the introduction of agricultural improvements; the multiplication of industries; emigration; and finally the improvement where necessary of the revenue and rent systems. In times of famine the function of the railways in distributing the grain is just as important as the function of the irrigation-canals in increasing the amount grown.

Ochus, determined to reduce Egypt.

On the support of the laity Henry relied to abolish papal jurisdiction and reduce clerical privilege and property in England; and by a close alliance with Francis I.

By taking three eclipses separated at short intervals, both the mean motion and the motion of the perigee would be known beforehand, from other data, with sufficient accuracy to reduce all the observations to the same epoch, and thus to leave only the three elements already mentioned unknown.

These were at once accepted; he was requested to sit on the Naval Retiring Board - a board then specially constituted for clearing the navy of unfit or disloyal officers - and a few months later was appointed to the command of the "Western Gulf Blockading Squadron," with the rank of flag-officer, and ordered to proceed forthwith, in the "Hartford," to the Gulf of Mexico, to collect such vessels as could be spared from the blockade, to proceed up the Mississippi, to reduce the defences which guarded the approaches to New Orleans, and to take and hold the city.

It was the first vehicle in the world to use aluminum armor to reduce weight and is fully amphibious.

To protect against excessive force exerted on the torso, there is a load limiting device to reduce the risk of bone breakage.

They are designed to add mass and reduce noise breakout from pipes, ducts and other equipment.

This also helps to reduce the amount of hazardous metals e.g. cadmium, nickel and mercury, in the waste stream.

Vertebroplasty involves injecting special cement into the spine to strengthen it and reduce pain.

Padding is taken care of by the contoured antibacterial chamois designed to absorb sweat and reduce bacterial build up on longer rides.

Hence unsaturated fatty acids would tend to reduce plasma cholesterol.

They stimulate circulation to reduce the risk of legs becoming tired or swollen.