Decrease vs. Reduce

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  • Decrease (verb)

    Of a quantity, to become smaller.

  • Decrease (verb)

    To make (a quantity) smaller.

  • Decrease (noun)

    An amount by which a quantity is decreased.

    “One research team has recorded Baishui’s decrease at about 27 meters per year over the last 10 years. File:One research team has recorded Baishui’s decrease.ogg”

  • Decrease (noun)

    A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).

  • Reduce (verb)

    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.”

  • Reduce (verb)

    To lose weight.

  • Reduce (verb)

    To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

    “to reduce a sergeant to the ranks”

  • Reduce (verb)

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

    “to reduce a province or a fort”

  • Reduce (verb)

    To bring to an inferior state or condition.

    “to reduce a city to ashes”

  • Reduce (verb)

    To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

  • Reduce (verb)

    To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

  • Reduce (verb)

    To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

  • Reduce (verb)

    To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

  • Reduce (verb)

    To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.

  • Reduce (verb)

    To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form

  • Reduce (verb)

    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 (verb)

    To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

  • Reduce (verb)

    To reform a line or column from (a square).

  • Reduce (verb)

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

    “a book reduced into English”

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