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| reduce | 1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. "And to his brother's house reduced his wife." (Chapman) "The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us." (Evelyn) 2. 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. "An ancient but reduced family." "Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it." (Tillotson) "Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears." (Milton) "Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced." (Hawthorne) 3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. 4. 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. "It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust." (Milton) 5. 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. <mathematics> 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. 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. 7. <chemistry> 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. 8. <medicine> To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. <chemistry> Reduced iron, metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen. <mathematics> To reduce an equation, to reform the line or column from the square. Synonym: To diminish, lessen, decrease, abate, shorten, curtail, impair, lower, subject, subdue, subjugate, conquer. Origin: L. Reducere, reductum; pref. Red-. Re-, re- + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Redoubt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| reduced enamel epithelium | The several layers of the enamel organ remaining on the enamel surface after formation of enamel is completed. Synonym: reduced enamel epithelium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reduced eye | A simplified design of the ocular optical system, represented as having a single refracting surface and a uniform index of refraction; a model based on this concept is used in retinoscopy and ophthalmoscopy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reduced glutathione | Glutathione acting as a hydrogen donor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reduced haematin | 1. <biochemistry> Compounds of iron complexed in a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring that differ in side chain composition. Haems are the prosthetic groups of cytochromes and are found in most oxygen carrier proteins. 2. <prefix> haem-, eaning relating to blood. Origin: G. Haima (21 Jun 2000) |
| reduced haemoglobin | The form of Hb in red blood cells after the oxygen of oxyhemoglobin is released in the tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reduced interarch distance | An occluding vertical dimension which results in an excessive interocclusal distance when the mandible is in rest position, and in a reduced interridge distance when the teeth are in contact. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reduced |
decreased: made less in size or amount or degree well below normal (especially in price)
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cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question" bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery" simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant" be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" shrink: reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living" make smaller; "reduce an image" deoxidize: 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 narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" repress: 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" undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce" reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site abridge: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" dilute: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" take off weight
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(re·duced) (re-d[ldbomac]st¢) 1. returned to the proper place or position, as a reduced fracture. 2. restored to a metallic form, as reduced iron. 3. altered by a chemical change involving a gain of electrons.
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a chemical reaction in which the reference element or compound gains electrons or hydrogen atoms (which have one electron) from another "oxidized" element or compound. Reduction typically results in building complex compounds.
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| reduce | take off weight |
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| reduce | lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture |
| reduce | narrow or limit |
| reduce | cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces |
| reduce | be cooked until very little is left |
| reduce | be the essential element |
| reduce | remove oxygen from a compound, in chemistry |
| reduce | make smaller |
| reduce | reduce in size |
| reduce | make less complex |
| reduce | reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
| reduce | cut down on |
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