Definizione monolingua

reduce

reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)

1. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
   • to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
2. (intransitive) To lose weight.
3. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
   • to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
   • An ancient but reduced family. --Sir Walter Scott.
   • Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --John Tillotson.
   • Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- John Milton.
   • Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. --Nathaniel Hawthorne.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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.""

4. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
   • to reduce a province or a fort
5. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
   • to reduce a city to ashes
6. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
7. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
8. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
9. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
10. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase ""to writing"").
    • It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.

reduce m. (plural reduci)

1. survivor
2. veteran (of a conflict)

reduce m. and f. (m and f plural reduci) (da)

1. returning (from)

Definizione dizionario reduce

	ridurre
	math: to simplify a formula
	to bring down
	In a graphical user interface, to decrease the size of a window. A user can reduce a window either by clicking the appropriate button in the title bar or by clicking the mouse on the border of the window and dragging the border toward the middle of the window.

abbassare

accorciare

assottigliare

contrarre

decrescere

degradare

dimagrire

diminuire

diradare

rendere più basso

restringere

ribassare

ridimensionare

ridursi

riduzione

rimpicciolire

scemare

Altri significati:

(transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.

metallurgy: to remove non-metals from metal

(transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").

(transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

to bring to an inferior rank

to lose weight

(transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

to decrease the liquid in food

to bring to an inferior state or condition

(intransitive) To lose weight.

(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

To thicken a liquid mixture such as a sauce by evaporation

(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

(transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

to bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture

chemistry: to add electrons to or remove hydrogen

(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

(transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.