单词 | re-reduce |
释义 | re-reducev. transitive. To reduce again (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > a thing to or into previous condition reversec1350 reforma1393 recover1393 converta1425 reduce?a1425 revolve1431 returnc1436 recure?1440 remayne1481 relieve1483 redressc1500 restaur1508 reprieve?1567 recollect1606 redeem1613 regain1624 to bring back1662 re-reducea1676 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 191 Some great Continents..were anciently firm Land,..and yet were afterwards reduced again into the Dominion of the Ocean, and after all that re-reduced into firm Land. 1704 The Address 3/2 If e're Tyrannick Powers possess, And Re-reduce the Nation, They'l bear their date from this Address, And you'll too late your Crimes confess, But merit no Compassion. 1844 G. Emerson Johnson's Farmer's Encycl. (new ed.) 907/1 The whole value of ploughing..depends upon its having the effect of loosening the texture of the soil..for the double purpose of increasing the rapidity of the disintegration of its stony portions, and of re-reducing to powder what had formerly been pulverized. 1874 Smithsonian Contributions to Knowl. XIX. 111 To make all the data of reduction rigorously homogeneous and uniform, it would be necessary to completely re-reduce the greater part of the observations made before 1850. 1906 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 21 75 It is quite superfluous to first reduce the pressure to sealevel, and then re-reduce it upwards from sealevel to a higher one. 1978 Isis 69 223 He would re-reduce this new data and merge it with Hansen's data. 1992 Managem. Rev. (Nexis) 1 Apr. He announced the first of a new series of programs to re-reduce white-collar jobs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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