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east | reduce |

As a proper noun east

is (personification ) the wind from the east.

As a verb reduce is

to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

east

English

(wikipedia east)

Noun

  • One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox.
  • * 1895 , , Jude the Obscure — In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south...
  • Coordinate terms

    * (compass point) north, south, west

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from east) * east by north * east by south * easterliness * easterly * eastern * easterner * easting * eastward * eastwardly * eastwards * northeast * north-northeast * southeast * south-southeast

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
  • (meteorology) wind from the east
  • Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
  • From the East; oriental.
  • Synonyms

    * (situated or lying in or towards the east) eastward * easterly * (of or pertaining to the east) eastern * (from the East) oriental

    Antonyms

    * (situated or lying in or towards the east) westward * westerly * (of or pertaining to the east) western

    Adverb

    (-)
  • towards the east; eastwards
  • Synonyms

    * (towards the east) eastwards

    Antonyms

    * (towards the east) west. westwards

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    reduce

    English

    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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Stephen Ledoux , title=Behaviorism at 100 , volume=100, issue=1, page=60 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}
  • To lose weight.
  • To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
  • * to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
  • * An ancient but reduced family. --.
  • * Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --.
  • * Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- .
  • * Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced . --.
  • *
  • 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."
  • To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
  • * to reduce a province or a fort
  • To bring to an inferior state or condition.
  • * to reduce a city to ashes
  • (cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
  • (chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
  • (metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
  • (mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
  • (legal) 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.
  • (medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
  • (military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
  • Synonyms

    * (to bring down) cut, decrease, lower

    Antonyms

    * (to bring down) increase

    See also

    * reducing agent

    References

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