Word Finder - reduced

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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

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Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.

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the reduced prices in a summer sale

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Discounted in price.

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the reduced goods at the sale

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Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.

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The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce.

She had reduced him to nothing more than a fix for her troubles.

The rest was reduced to firewood long ago.

The value of the ore reduced annually is about $10,000,000.

For the quantitative determination of cobalt, it is either weighed as the oxide, C0304, obtained by ignition of the precipitated monoxide, or it is reduced in a current of hydrogen and weighed as metal.

The transpiring surface of xerophytes is frequently reduced.

China has no Cistus or heath, only a single Ferula, while Astragalus is reduced to 35 species.

This curve with the values reduced from metres to feet is reproduced below.

The varieties of coast-lines were reduced to an exact classification by Richthofen, who grouped them according to the height and slope of the land into cliff-coasts (Steilkiisten)- narrow beach coasts with cliffs, wide beach coasts with cliffs, and 1 Rumpf, in German, the language in which this distinction was first made.

The fundamental form-elements may be reduced to the six proposed by Professor Penck as the basis of his double system of classification by form and origin.'

The meta-nitrocompound, which is precipitated last, is then reduced, and the amino group so formed is replaced by the hydroxyl group by means of the Sandmeyer reaction.

Coprolite is reduced to powder by powerful mills of peculiar construction, furnished with granite and buhrstones, before being treated with concentrated sulphuric acid.

A few years later (704 B.C.) the combined forces of Elam and Babylonia were overthrown at Kis, and in the following year the Kassites were reduced to subjection.

The whole country was reduced to a desert, Susa was plundered and razed to the ground, the royal sepulchres were desecrated, and the images of the gods and of 32 kings "in silver, gold, bronze and alabaster," were carried away.

With the opening of the Russian railway from the Caspian to Merv, Bokhara and Samarkand in 1886-1887, Russian manufacturers were enabled to compete in Central Asia with their western rivals, and the value of European manufactures passing Meshed in transit was much reduced.

It was formerly believed that the sulphur had a volcanic origin, but it is now generally held that it has either been reduced from gypsum by organic agencies, or more probably deposited from sulphur-bearing waters.

From Moscow to Vyazma the French army of seventy-three thousand men not reckoning the Guards (who did nothing during the whole war but pillage) was reduced to thirty-six thousand, though not more than five thousand had fallen in battle.

The hinge was oiled and didn't squeak because the friction had been reduced.

In a subsequent battle he retrieved this disaster, and after a long blockade reduced the town itself.

The inhabitants of the last-named islands were noted pirates until reduced to order by the French.

After the battle of Mycale (479 B.C.), Lampsacus joined the Athenians, but, having revolted from them in 411, was reduced by force.

By the adoption of a regular system of work, and a careful plan of reduction, he was able to keep his observations reduced practically up to date, and published them annually with a degree of punctuality which astonished his contemporaries.

At the same time the interest guaranteed to the railway companies was reduced from 7 to 32%.

In 1891 he was obliged to suspend the service of the public debt and make arrangements by which the bondholders accepted a reduced rate of interest.

He began with Peter of Lombardy (who had reduced to theological order, in his famous book on the Sentences, the various authoritative statements of the church upon doctrine) in his In Quatuor Sententiarum P. Lombardi libros.

Robert Napier says that these results would have been reduced to order and demonstrated consecutively but for his father's death.

The expedition, which originally numbered 2500 men, was reduced by deaths at the hands of the Indians, by disease and privation, within a year to less than Soo men.

I In 1894 the rentes then standing at 43/4% were reduced to 33/4%, and in 1902 to 3%.

Equally indecisive is the further exploration as to evidence for the opinion held by other naturalists that the endemic species of the different islands have resulted from subsidences, through volcanic action, which have reduced one large island mass into a number of islets, wherein the separated species became differentiated during their isolation.

Fore feet with the functional toes reduced to two, the second and third, of equal length, with closely united metacarpals and short, sharp, slightly curved, compressed claws.

Thus, 1 - x would represent the operation of selecting all things in the world except horned things, that is, all not horned things, and (1 - x) (1 - y) would give us all things neither horned nor sheep. By the use of such symbols propositions could be reduced to the form of equations, and the syllogistic conclusion from two premises was obtained by eliminating the middle term according to ordinary algebraic rules.

Phocaea continued to exist under the Persian government, but greatly reduced in population and commerce.

The salient event of Bela's reign was the terrible Tatar invasion which reduced three-quarters of Hungary to ashes.

He died before it was completed, but it was finished by Sargon, who reduced the city, deported its inhabitants, and established within it a mixed multitude of settlers (who were the ancestors of the modern Samaritans).

It took, however, an important part in the rebellion of 295, and was reduced, with Vulsinii and Arretium, to seek for peace in the following year.

Antonius took refuge there, and was reduced by Octavian after a long siege.

In some cases (many species of Ascaris) the metamorphosis is reduced to a simple process of growth.

Sometimes, especially in the case of overhead travelling cranes for very heavy loads, the chain is a special pitch chain, formed of flat links pinned together, and the barrel is reduced to a wheel provided with teeth, or " sprockets," which engage in the links.

The toothed wheels give a slightly better efficiency, but the worm gear is somewhat smoother in its action and entirely silent; the noise of gearing can, however, be considerably reduced by careful machining of the teeth, as is now always done, and also by the use of pinions made of rawhide leather or other non-resonant material.

Slaves were often adopted and if they proved unfilial were reduced to slavery again.

Owing to the experience gained with many thousands of miles of cable in all depths and under varying conditions of weather and climate, the risk, and consequently the cost, of laying has been greatly reduced.

By this method of transmission the battery is always to the line for the same interval of time, and alternately with opposite poles, so that the effect of electrostatic induction is reduced to a minimum.

The working expenses were reduced in a progressively larger ratio, e.g.

In that year the Swiss government reduced the rate for inland telegrams by one-half, and the traffic immediately doubled, but the cost of carrying on the service increased in a larger ratio.

This involved a large extension of wires to cope with increased traffic. The reduced rate took effect as from the 1st of October 1886.

The following year the rates to and from East and South Africa were reduced, by negotiation, from charges varying from 7s.

He discovered a fact subsequently rediscovered by others, that a tube of metallic filings, loosely packed, was sensitive to electric sparks made in its vicinity, its electrical resistance being reduced, and he was able to detect effects on such a tube connected to a battery and telephone at a distance of 500 yds.'

The impedance of the primary or alternator circuit is so adjusted that when both the chokers are in circuit the current flowing is not sufficient to charge the condensers; but when one choker is short-circuited the impedance is reduced so that the condenser is charged, but the alternating arc is not formed.

It does not melt at a white heat, and is easily reduced to the metal by heating in a current of hydrogen or with carbon.

As a result the time occupied by an operator per call was reduced from 50.77 seconds to 16.63 seconds.

The subscriber pays a fixed annual rent which covers a certain number of free out - ward calls, say boo; additional calls he purchases in advance in blocks of several hundred at so much per hundred, the price being reduced as the number increases.