Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce.
- noun In building, a little piece or cut taken out of a part, member, etc., to make it more uniform, or for any other purpose; a quirk
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To reduce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry A
reducing agent . - verb obsolete, transitive To
reduce . - verb nonstandard To
duct tape again. - verb nonstandard To
channel through aduct again.
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Oh, and Ryan: I respect a site that publishes a range of opinions, but DK, the reduct box, Cenla politics and other sites all seem to publish Jim Brown's fact-challenged columns.
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Technically speaking, each structure of the fusion has, as a reduct, a model of L1 and a model of L2.
Combining Logics Carnielli, Walter 2007
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All basically worthless, if the goal is to reduct carbon emissions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » No Reason to Follow the E.U.‘s Climate Path: 2007
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Tons of books and websites give suggestions on what to do to reduct carbon emmissions…However most people will not voluntarily follow those suggestions because some of them are a little inconvenient and some are difficult.
Think Progress » Stephanopoulos: Pelosi May Create Special Global Warming Committee 2007
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The existing child support tables in most locations do not adequately reduct child support orders when the paying parent is in poverty and the receiving parent is living at multiple levels above the poverty level.
Men’s Rights Myth: Typical Child Support Payments Are Insanely High 2006
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London is not getting a reduct, Kiran cried, pushing herself out of her cushy chair as her aesthetician finished her facial.
Untouchable Kate Brian 2006
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London is not getting a reduct, Kiran cried, pushing herself out of her cushy chair as her aesthetician finished her facial.
Untouchable Kate Brian 2006
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A general search was instituted, and before long they were lucky enough to find, about a hundred feet above the central grotto, a small recess or reduct hollowed, as it were, in the mountain side, which would exactly answer their purpose.
Off on a Comet 2003
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Tuberculosis, pneumonia, meningitis, diarrhoea etc. The important link between development, poverty reduct ion and gender should be emphasised.
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Here permutation comes to our aid; while conversion by negation enables us to convert the A proposition, without loss of quantity, and to elicit the precise conclusion we require out of the reduct of Boltardo.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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