Curtail vs Titrate - What's the difference?
curtail | titrate |
(obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
(figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
* Macaulay
(analytical chemistry) To ascertain the amount of a constituent in a solution (or other mixture) by measuring the volume of a known concentration (the "standard solution") needed to complete a reaction.
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(medicine) To adjust the amount of a drug consumed until the desired effects are achieved.
* A 5mg dose could not ease the pain, so he titrated to 10mg which brought him immediate relief.
As verbs the difference between curtail and titrate
is that curtail is (obsolete) to cut short the tail of an animal while titrate is (analytical chemistry) to ascertain the amount of a constituent in a solution (or other mixture) by measuring the volume of a known concentration (the "standard solution") needed to complete a reaction.As a noun curtail
is (architecture) a scroll termination, as of a step, etc.curtail
English
Verb
(en verb)- ''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
- When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
- Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
- Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.