East vs Reduce - What's the difference?
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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...
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.
towards the east; eastwards
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.
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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 . --.
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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).
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
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(wikipedia east)Noun
Coordinate terms
* (compass point) north, south, westDerived terms
(terms derived from east) * east by north * east by south * easterliness * easterly * eastern * easterner * easting * eastward * eastwardly * eastwards * northeast * north-northeast * southeast * south-southeastAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* (situated or lying in or towards the east) eastward * easterly * (of or pertaining to the east) eastern * (from the East) orientalAntonyms
* (situated or lying in or towards the east) westward * westerly * (of or pertaining to the east) westernAdverb
(-)Synonyms
* (towards the east) eastwardsAntonyms
* (towards the east) west. westwardsAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----reduce
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- 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."