Reduce vs Map - What's the difference?
reduce | map |
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).
A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.
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(mathematics) A function.
(topology) A continuous function.
A diagram of components of an item.
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The butterfly .
(UK, old-fashioned) Someone's face.
* {{quote-book
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, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter X
, passage=And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.}}
(board games, computer games) A predefined and confined imaginary area where a game session takes place.
To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.
To inform someone of a particular idea.
(mathematics) To act as a function on.
(topology) To act as a continuous function on.
As verbs the difference between reduce and map
is that reduce is to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair while map is to create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.As a noun map is
a visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.As an initialism MAP is
modified American plan, a hotel rate that included accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch.reduce
English
Verb
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.}}
- 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."
Synonyms
* (to bring down) cut, decrease, lowerAntonyms
* (to bring down) increaseSee also
* reducing agentReferences
* ----map
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps , diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
- The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always maps.
citation, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
- "I don't want to play this map again!"
Synonyms
* plan * chart * (mathematics) mapping, function.Derived terms
* argument map * concept map * * mapmaker * mapmaking * mind map * overworld map * texture map * thematic map * topic mapVerb
(mapp)- f'' maps''' ''A'' to ''B'', ' mapping to .
- The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always mappings.
