reduce

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

2. fiil To lose weight.
3. fiil To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

   “to reduce a sergeant to the ranks”

4. fiil To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

   “to reduce a province or a fort”

5. fiil To bring to an inferior state or condition.

   “to reduce a city to ashes”

6. fiil To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).

   “reduced to silence”

7. fiil To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.

   “Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.”

8. fiil To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

   “Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.”

9. fiil To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
10. fiil To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
11. fiil To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
12. fiil To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
13. fiil 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.”

14. fiil To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
15. fiil To reform a line or column from (a square).
16. fiil To strike off the payroll.
17. fiil To annul by legal means.
18. fiil To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.

    “The first vowel of support is reduced to schwa by most English speakers.”

19. fiil To translate (a book, document, etc.).

    “a book reduced into English”