reduce
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin redūcere, present active infinitive of redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”), + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.
[edit] Pronunciation
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audio (US) (file) - (RP) IPA: /ɹɪˈdjuːs/, SAMPA: /rI"dju:s/
- (GenAm) IPA: /ɹɪˈduːs/, SAMPA: /rI"du:s/
- Rhymes: -uːs
[edit] Verb
reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
- to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
- An ancient but reduced family. --Sir Walter Scott.
- Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --John Tillotson.
- Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- John Milton.
- Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. --Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
- Neither [Jones] […] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- to reduce a province or a fort
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- to reduce a city to ashes
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
- It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
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[edit] Translations
to bring down
to lose weight
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to bring to an inferior rank
to bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture
to decrease the liquid in food
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chemistry: to add electrons to or remove hydrogen
metallurgy: to remove non-metals from metal
math: to simplify a formula
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- reduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
reduce m. and f. (m and f plural reduci) (da)
- returning (from)
[edit] Noun
reduce m. (plural reduci)
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[edit] Latin
[edit] Verb
redūce
- second-person singular present active imperative of redūcō
[edit] Romanian
[edit] Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reducere, French réduire, based on duce.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [reˈdu.ʧe]
[edit] Verb
a reduce (third-person singular present reduce, past participle redus) 3rd conj.
- (transitive) to reduce, to lessen
[edit] Conjugation
reduce (third conjugation)
| infinitive | a reduce | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | reducând | ||||||
| past participle | redus | ||||||
| number | singular | plural | |||||
| person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | reduc | reduci | reduce | reducem | reduceți | reduc | |
| imperfect | reduceam | reduceai | reducea | reduceam | reduceați | reduceau | |
| simple perfect | redusei | reduseși | reduse | reduserăm | reduserăți | reduseră | |
| pluperfect | redusesem | reduseseși | redusese | reduseserăm | reduseserăți | reduseseră | |
| subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | să reduc | să reduci | să reducă | să reducem | să reduceți | să reducă | |
| imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
| affirmative | redu | reduceți | |||||
| negative | nu reduce | nu reduceți | |||||
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[edit] Spanish
[edit] Verb
reduce (infinitive reducir)
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