Slim vs Reduce - What's the difference?
slim | reduce |
Slender, thin.
# (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
# (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
# (of an object) Long and narrow.
# (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
(of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
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(South Africa) Sly, crafty.
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
(East Africa) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
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(slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
To lose weight in order to achieve slimness
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 noun slim
is slime, mucus.As a verb reduce is
to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.slim
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Adjective
(slimmer)- Movie stars are usually slim , attractive, and young.
- I'm afraid your chances are quite slim .
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Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- I only smoke slims .
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Alternative forms
* (AIDS) SlimVerb
Anagrams
* * ----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."