英语词汇“subtract”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINsubtract

Origin:

1500-1600 Latin past participle of subtrahere ‘to pull from beneath, remove’, from trahere ‘to pull’

VERB TABLE

subtract

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	subtract
	he, she, it	subtracts
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	subtracted
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have subtracted
	he, she, it	has subtracted
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had subtracted
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will subtract
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have subtracted

Continuous Form
Present	I	am subtracting
	he, she, it	is subtracting
	you, we, they	are subtracting
Past	I, he, she, it	was subtracting
	you, we, they	were subtracting
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been subtracting
	he, she, it	has been subtracting
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been subtracting
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be subtracting
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been subtracting

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Subtract 12 from 32.
To convert the temperature into Celsius, subtract 32, then multiply by 5 and divide by 9.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Do not add unless you subtract.
It adjusts the heat needed to incubate the egg by adding to or subtracting from the amount of compost piled above it.
Specific lysis was calculated by the standard formula and values in the absence of peptide subtracted to yield the values shown.
The sums are open to anyone who can add or subtract.
Then the first image is subtracted from the second to show the regions of additional activity during reading.
This extrapolation could be customized features could be changed and added or subtracted hence the term.
To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d percent up to that day.
Your child needs to agree that you may add or subtract to the list.

THESAURUSdifferent ways of calculating► add

to put two or more numbers together to find the total: · If you add 7 and 5, you get 12.

► subtract/take away

to reduce one number by another number. take something away sounds more informal than subtract: · If you subtract 12 from 15, you get 3.

► multiply

to add a number to itself a particular number of times: · 4 multiplied by 10 is 40.

► divide

to calculate how many times one number contains another number: · 10 divided by 2 equals 5.

Longman Language Activatorto take one number away from another► take/take away

especially spoken to take one number from another and calculate the answer: take something (away) from: · If you take 37 from 94 you get 57.· Take 19 away from 48 and then add 15.

► subtract

to take one number from another and calculate the answer: · To convert the temperature into Celsius, subtract 32, then multiply by 5 and divide by 9.subtract something from something: · Subtract 12 from 32.

► minus

use minus between numbers or amounts to show that you are taking one figure from another: · 30 minus 5 leaves 25.· Here's the twenty dollars I owe you, minus seven dollars for the movie.

► deduct

to take away an amount of money, points etc from a total, especially when following official rules or an official system: · Marks may be deducted for illegible handwriting.deduct something from something: · Your employer will deduct income tax from your salary.· Your monthly repayments will be deducted from the total amount that you owe.

WORD SETS► Maths

abacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► subtract one number from another

· Subtract this number from the total.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► then

· Then subtract the cost of the loan.· Then subtract the former costs from the latter costs to obtain the reimbursable overheads cost.

VERB► add

· The sums are open to anyone who can add or subtract.· This extrapolation could be customized features could be changed and added or subtracted hence the term.· It adjusts the heat needed to incubate the egg by adding to or subtracting from the amount of compost piled above it.· Those parts, in turn, were subjected to multiple amendments that added and subtracted large pieces of would-be law.· Today it is counting, adding and subtracting in base seven ... until I hear the scraping sound ... that stops me.· Do not add unless you subtract.· Of course it would be meaningless to add and subtract different units of measurement like pounds and dollars.· Your child needs to agree that you may add or subtract to the list.