Definitions of Reduce [ɪˈdus, -ˈdyus]

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Definition of 'Reduce'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) reduce
to bring down to a smaller size, amount, price, etc.

2.  reduce
to lower in degree, intensity, etc.

3.  reduce
to demote to a lower rank

4.  reduce
to treat analytically, as a complex idea.

5.  reduce
to act destructively upon (a substance or object):
a house reduced to ashes.

6.  reduce
to bring to a certain state:
to reduce someone to tears.

7.  reduce
to evaporate water from, as a sauce, by boiling.

8.  reduce
to change the denomination or form, but not the value, of (a fraction, polynomial, etc.).

9.  reduce
to deoxidize.

10.  reduce
to add hydrogen to.

11.  reduce
to decrease the positive charge on (an ion) by adding electrons.

12.  reduce
to convert (ore minerals) to a metallic state by driving off nonmetallic elements; smelt.

13.  reduce
to thin or dilute:
to reduce paint with turpentine.

14.  reduce
to restore to the normal place, relation, or condition, as a fractured bone.

15.  reduce
to pronounce (a vowel) as (&schwa;) or another unstressed, centralized vowel.

16. (v.i.) reduce
to become reduced.

17.  reduce
to lose weight, as by dieting.

18.  reduce
to be equal to or turned into something.

19.  reduce
to undergo meiosis.

Etymology: (1325–75; to lead back < L redūcere to lead back, bring back =re-re - +dūcere to lead)

Definition of 'Reduce'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
cut down on; make a reduction in
"reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

2. (verb) reduce
make less complex
"reduce a problem to a single question"

3. (verb) reduce
bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
"He reduced the population to slavery"

4. (verb) reduce
simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

5. (verb) reduce
lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
"She reduced her niece to a servant"

6. (verb) reduce, come down, boil down
be the essential element
"The proposal boils down to a compromise"

7. (verb) shrink, reduce
reduce in size; reduce physically
"Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

8. (verb) reduce
lessen and make more modest
"reduce one's standard of living"

9. (verb) reduce, scale down
make smaller
"reduce an image"

10. (verb) deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

11. (verb) reduce, tighten
narrow or limit
"reduce the influx of foreigners"

12. (verb) repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
put down by force or intimidation
"The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"

13. (verb) reduce
undergo meiosis
"The cells reduce"

14. (verb) reduce
reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

15. (verb) reduce
destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

16. (verb) abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
"The manuscript must be shortened"

17. (verb) boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate
be cooked until very little liquid is left
"The sauce should reduce to one cup"

18. (verb) reduce, boil down, concentrate
cook until very little liquid is left
"The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

19. (verb) dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
"cut bourbon"

20. (verb) reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
take off weight

Definition of 'Reduce'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) reduce
to cause to be less
attempts to reduce the amount of waste; The prices are reduced by 25%.

Definition of 'Reduce'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Reduce
to bring or lead back to any former place or condition

2. (noun) Reduce
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

3. (noun) Reduce
to bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort

4. (noun) Reduce
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

5. (noun) Reduce
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

6. (noun) Reduce
to change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours

7. (noun) Reduce
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

8. (noun) Reduce
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

9. (noun) Reduce
to restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia

Translation of 'Reduce'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make less, smaller etc The shop reduced its prices; The train reduced speed.
Afrikaans: verminder	Arabic: يُقَلِّل	Bulgarian: намалявам
Brazilian: reduzir	Czech: snížit	German: herabsetzen
Danish: reducere; nedsætte	Greek: μειώνω, ελαττώνω	Spanish: reducir
Estonian: vähendama	Farsi: کاهش دادن؛ پایین آوردن	Finnish: alentaa
French: réduire	Hebrew: לְהַקטִין	Hindi: घटाना
Croatian: reducirati, smanjiti	Hungarian: csökkent	Indonesian: menurunkan
Icelandic: minnka, lækka	Italian: ridurre	Japanese: 縮小する
Korean: 줄이다	Lithuanian: sumažinti	Latvian: samazināt; pazemināt
Malay: mengurangkan	Dutch: verminderen	Norwegian: sette ned, redusere
Polish: obniżyć, zmniejszyć	Persian: کاهش دادن؛ پایین آوردن	Pashto: كمول، لږول،تنزيلول، سپكيد
Portuguese: reduzir	Romanian: a reduce	Russian: снижать
Slovak: znížiť	Slovenian: zmanjšati	Serbian: smanjiti
Swedish: reducera, minska, sänka	Thai: ทำให้เล็กลง	Turkish: azaltmak
Taiwanese: 減少，縮小	Ukrainian: зменшувати, знижувати	Urdu: گھٹانا یا گھٹنا
Vietnamese: giảm	Chinese: 减少，减小
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