Reduce vs Takeaway - What's the difference?
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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).
(chiefly, UK, Australia, and, New Zealand, of food) To be eaten off the premises.
(chiefly, UK, Australia, and, New Zealand) A restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere.
* 2005 , Amsterdam , ,
* 2006 , Mary Fitzpatrick, Tom Parkinson, Nick Ray, East Africa , Lonely Planet,
(chiefly, UK, Australia, and, New Zealand) A meal bought to be eaten elsewhere.
* 2008 , Annalisa Rellie, Tricia Hayne, Turks & Caicos Islands , Bradt Travel Guides,
* 2008 , The Complete Residents? Guide: Los Angeles , Explorer Publishing,
(golf) The preliminary part of a golfer?s swing when the club is brought back away from the ball.
* 2001 , David Chmiel, Kevin Morris, Golf Past 50 ,
* 2005 , Paul G. Schempp, Peter Mattsson, Golf: Steps To Success ,
* 2007 , John Andrisani, Golfweek?s 101 Winning Golf Tips ,
(US) A concession made by a labor union in the course of negotiations.
An idea from a talk, presentation, etc., that the listener or reader should remember and consider.
* 2008 , Carol A. E. Bentley, Beat The Recession: Proven Marketing Tactics , Volume 1,
* 2010 , Scott Monty, Foreword'', Erik Qualman, ''Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business ,
As a verb reduce
is to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.As an adjective takeaway is
to be eaten off the premises.As a noun takeaway is
a restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere.reduce
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Verb
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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."
Synonyms
* (to bring down) cut, decrease, lowerAntonyms
* (to bring down) increaseSee also
* reducing agentReferences
* ----takeaway
English
(wikipedia takeaway)Alternative forms
* take-awayAdjective
(-)Usage notes
Frequently used in the question “eat-in or takeaway ?” (North American: “for here or to go?”) at restaurants that offer food for both on and off premise eating.Synonyms
* (to be eaten off premises) to go (North America)Antonyms
* eat in (British) * for here (North America) * have here (New Zealand)Descendants
* Italian: (l)Noun
(en noun)- If you're hungry, there's a takeaway just around the corner.
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- The wonderful, and deeply filling, world of Dutch broodjes (sandwiches) has its greatest champion in this takeaway , one of the very few that still features proper homemade meat and fish salads in your bun, rather than the almost ubiquitous factory prepared product that?s taken over the sandwich market.
page 479,
- Some of the cheapest places to eat in Kampala are the ubiquitous takeaways that dot the city centre.
- I fancy an Indian takeaway tonight.
page 99,
- Good Italian cuisine & friendly service. Also does takeaways , including pizza.
page 315,
- Pizza and Thai food are popular delivery and takeaway choices, but there are a number of options.
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- One drill to help you work on the long, low takeaway is to place a tee, a coin, or even another ball just beyond your back foot (whatever you choose should be slightly inside your toe to promote a slightly inside swing path).
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- Make sure your hands and shoulders work together during the takeaway .
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- Tiger Woods, like other golfing greats, employs a smooth, evenly paced takeaway action.
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- For example, one of the big takeaways for myself (even though I know better) is when I don?t review my goals daily I get sucked into what?s currently happening and easily get distracted from what?s most important.
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- A strength of this book is Qualman?s ability to take complex issues and break them into easily digestible takeaways through the use of real world examples and analogies.