Reduce

[rɪ'djuːs] or [rɪ'dʊs]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) take off weight.

(verb.) narrow or limit; 'reduce the influx of foreigners'.

(verb.) cook until very little liquid is left; 'The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time'.

(verb.) make smaller; 'reduce an image'.

(verb.) make less complex; 'reduce a problem to a single question'.

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

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

(verb.) undergo meiosis; 'The cells reduce'.

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

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

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

(verb.) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; 'He reduced the population to slavery'.

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

(verb.) be the essential element; 'The proposal boils down to a compromise'.

手打:南希--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

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

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Restore, bring back.[2]. Render, form, mould, make, shape, model, remodel, convert into, resolve into, change into, bring into, bring to.[3]. Diminish, contract, lessen, abate, decrease, abridge, curtail, shorten, cut short, cut down, make less.[4]. Depress, debase, lower, weaken, dwarf.[5]. Subdue, conquer, subjugate, overpower, overthrow, vanquish, master, get the better of, get the upper hand of, bring into subjection.[6]. Impoverish, ruin, bring to want, bring to poverty.[7]. (Math.) Solve, resolve.

整理:莫尼卡

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Lessen, diminish, curtail, attenuate, impoverish, narrow, contract, weaken,impair, subdue, subjugate, bring, refer, subject, classify, convert

ANT:Enlarge, magnify, increase, augment, produce, extend, amplify, broaden, expand,renovate, invigorate, restore, repair, liberate, free, except, dissociate,transform

手打:谢莉

解釋/意思:

v.t. to bring into a lower state as to reduce the ores of silver: to lessen: to impoverish: to subdue: to arrange: (arith. and alg.) to change numbers or quantities from one denomination into another: to reduce to its proper form as to reduce a fracture: to bring into a new form as to reduce Latin to English: to weaken: to bring into a class: (Scots law) to annul by legal means: (mil.) to strike off the pay-roll.—ns. Reduc′er one who reduces: a joint-piece for connecting pipes of varying diameter; Reducibil′ity Reduc′ibleness the quality of being reducible.—adj. Reduc′ible that may be reduced.—ns. Reduc′ing-scale a scale used by surveyors for reducing chains and links to acres and roods; Reduc′tion act of reducing or state of being reduced: diminution: subjugation: a rule for changing numbers or quantities from one denomination to another.—adj. Reduc′tive having the power to reduce.—Reduce to the ranks to degrade for misconduct to the condition of a private soldier; Reductio ad absurdum the proof of a proposition by proving the falsity of its contradictory opposite; Reduction works smelting works.

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