reduceとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈdjuːs/, /ɹɪˈdʒuːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈduːs/
• 韻: -uːs

動詞

reduce (三人称単数 現在形 reduces, 現在分詞 reducing, 過去形および過去分詞形 reduced)

1. (transitive) 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.

   • 2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, page 60:

     Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

2. (intransitive) To lose weight.
3. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

   to reduce a sergeant to the ranks

   • 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
   • My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.
   • Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. (Can we date this quote by John Tillotson かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)
   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.

   • Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. (Can we date this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, 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.
   • 2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.

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

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, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
11. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
12. (transitive, law) 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.

13. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
14. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
15. (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
16. (transitive, Scotland, law) To annul by legal means.
17. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

    a book reduced into English

同意語

• (to bring down): cut, decrease, lower
• (cooking): inspissate; see also Thesaurus:thicken

反意語

• (to bring down): increase

関連する語

参考

• reducing agent

参照

• reduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈduː.ke/, [rɛˈd̪uː.kɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈdu.t͡ʃe/, [rɛˈd̪uː.t͡ʃɛ]

動詞

redūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of redūcō

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.du.ke/, [ˈrɛ.d̪ʊ.kɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.du.t͡ʃe/, [ˈrɛː.d̪u.t͡ʃɛ]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.du.ke/, [ˈrɛ.d̪ʊ.kɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.du.t͡ʃe/, [ˈrɛː.d̪u.t͡ʃɛ]

形容詞

rĕduce

1. ablative masculine singular of rē̆dux
2. ablative feminine singular of rē̆dux
3. ablative neuter singular of rē̆dux