Reduce vs. Reduct — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Reduce or Reduct
How to spell Reduce?
Reduce
Correct Spelling
Reduct
Incorrect Spelling
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Reduce Definitions
To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish.
To gain control of; subject or conquer
"a design to reduce them under absolute despotism" (Declaration of Independence).
To subject to destruction
Enemy bombers reduced the city to rubble.
To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness
Disease that reduced the patient to emaciation.
Teasing that reduced the child to tears.
To compel to desperate acts
The Depression reduced many to begging on street corners.
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To lower in rank or grade; demote.
To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.
To lower the price of
The store has drastically reduced winter coats.
To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent.
To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify
Reduced her ideas to a collection of maxims.
To turn into powder; pulverize.
To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons.
To remove oxygen from (a compound).
To add hydrogen to (a compound).
To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt.
(Mathematics) To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value.
(Medicine) To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position.
(Linguistics) To pronounce (a stressed vowel) as the unstressed version of that vowel or as schwa.
To become diminished.
To lose weight, as by dieting.
(Biology) To undergo meiosis.
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
To reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
(intransitive) To lose weight.
(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
To reduce a sergeant to the ranks
(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
To reduce a province or a fort
(transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
To reduce a city to ashes
To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.
To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
To reform a line or column from (a square).
To strike off the payroll.
To annul by legal means.
To translate (a book, document, etc.).
A book reduced into English
To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
And to his brother's house reduced his wife.
The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us.
To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it.
Having reducedTheir foe to misery beneath their fears.
Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
It were but rightAnd equal to reduce me to my dust.
To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
To add an electron to an atom or ion.
To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
Cut down on; make a reduction in;
Reduce your daily fat intake
The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Make less complex;
Reduce a problem to a single question
Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition;
He reduced the population to slavery
Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation;
She reduced her niece to a servant
Be the essential element;
The proposal boils down to a compromise
Reduce in size; reduce physically;
Hot water will shrink the sweater
Can you shrink this image?
Lessen and make more modest;
Reduce one's standard of living
Make smaller;
Reduce an image
To remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
Narrow or limit;
Reduce the influx of foreigners
Put down by force or intimidation;
The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
Undergo meiosis;
The cells reduce
Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
The manuscript must be shortened
Be cooked until very little liquid is left;
The sauce should reduce to one cup
Cook until very little liquid is left;
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
Cut bourbon
Take off weight
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