reduce
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English reducen, from Old French reducer, from Latin redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈdjuːs/, /ɹɪˈdʒuːs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈduːs/
audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːs
Verb[edit]
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 reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
- 2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 60:
- Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
- 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
- Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
- 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
- My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion
- nothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it .
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 13, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:
- Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, 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.
- 2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.
- Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.
- 2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.
- (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, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, Scotland, law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
- a book reduced into English
Synonyms[edit]
- (to bring down): cut, decrease, lower
- (cooking): inspissate; see also Thesaurus:thicken
Antonyms[edit]
- (to bring down): increase
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to bring down
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to lose weight
to bring to an inferior rank
to bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture
to bring to an inferior state or condition
to decrease the liquid in food
chemistry: to add electrons to or remove hydrogen
metallurgy: to remove non-metals from metal
math: to simplify a formula
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “reduce” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin redux (“that returns”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
reduce (plural reduci) (da)
Noun[edit]
reduce m or f (plural reduci)
- survivor
- Synonym: sopravvissuto
- veteran (of a conflict)
- Synonyms: veterano, ex combattente
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈduː.ke/, [rɛˈd̪uːkɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈdu.t͡ʃe/, [reˈd̪uːt͡ʃe]
Verb[edit]
redūce
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.du.ke/, [ˈrɛd̪ʊkɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.du.t͡ʃe/, [ˈrɛːd̪ut͡ʃe]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.du.ke/, [ˈrɛd̪ʊkɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.du.t͡ʃe/, [ˈrɛːd̪ut͡ʃe]
Adjective[edit]
rĕduce
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin reducere, French réduire, based on duce. Compare the inherited doublet arăduce.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
a reduce (third-person singular present reduce, past participle redus) 3rd conj.
- (transitive) to reduce, to lessen
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of reduce (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitive | a reduce | ||||||
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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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Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
reduce
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