İngilizce-Türkçe-Almanca sözlük

1. bir hale sokmak, getirmek; çevirmek, tahvil etmek; kanuni şekilde iptal etmek; redüklemek; ; tanzim etmek, tertip etmek; şiddetini azaltmak; kırmak, azaltmak, indirmek, küçültmek; organları normal yerine getirmek.
2. azaltır.

Etymology : Middle English, to lead back, from Latin reducere, from re- + ducere to lead; more at TOW
Pronunciation : ri-'düs, -'dyüs
Function : verb
Date : 14th century

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1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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. To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. take off weight narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" make smaller; "reduce an image" make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question" cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" reposition back to its normal site undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce" lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant" simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living" bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery".