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reducing 音标拼音: [rəd'usɪŋ] [rɪd'usɪŋ] [rid'usɪŋ] n. 减轻体重法 减轻体重法 reducing缩减 归约 还原 reducing n 1: any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion ( as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent [ synonym: { reduction}, { reducing}] 2: loss of excess weight ( as by dieting); becoming slimmer; " a doctor supervised her reducing" Reduce \ Re* duce"\ ( r[- e]* d[= u] s"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Reduced} (- d[= u] st"),; p. pr. & vb. n. { Reducing} (- d[= u]" s[ i^] ng).] [ L. reducere, reductum; pref. red-. re-, re- ducere to lead. See { Duke}, and cf. { Redoubt}, n.] 1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] And to his brother' s house reduced his wife. -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster] The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster] 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." -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. -- Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster] Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. -- Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Arith.) ( a) 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. ( b) 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. [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( Chem.) To add an electron to an atom or ion. Specifically: To remove oxygen from; to deoxidize. ( Metallurgy) To bring to the metallic state by separating from combined oxygen and impurities; as, metals are reduced from their ores. ( Chem.) To combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen or any other reducing agent; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; aldehydes can be reduced to alcohols by lithium hydride; -- opposed to { oxidize}. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 8. ( Med.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. [ 1913 Webster] { Reduced iron} ( Chem.), 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}. { To reduce an equation} ( Alg.), to bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation. { To reduce an expression} ( Alg.), to obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form. { To reduce a square} ( Mil.), to reform the line or column from the square. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer. [ 1913 Webster]
Reducing \ Re* du" cing\ ( r?* d?" s? ng), a & n. from { Reduce}. [ 1913 Webster] { Reducing furnace} ( Metal.), a furnace for reducing ores. { Reducing pipe fitting}, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. { Reducing valve}, a device for automatically maintaining a diminished pressure of steam, air, gas, etc., in a pipe, or other receiver, which is fed from a boiler or pipe in which the pressure is higher than is desired in the receiver. [ 1913 Webster] 23 Moby Thesaurus words for " reducing": abating, allaying, alleviating, assuaging, blunting, calorie- counting, chastening, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, diminishing, dulling, easing, lessening, mitigating, relaxing, slenderizing, slimming, softening, subduing, tempering, weight- watching
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