REDUCE

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Traducere în limba română

reduce verb A. tranzitiv

a reduce, a micşora, a scădea; a face să descrească, a atenua, a diminua;

to reduce smth. in length a scurta ceva;

to reduce the length of a skirt a scurta o fustă;

to reduce one’s weight a slăbi (în greutate), a pierde din greutate, a da jos / a lepăda câteva kilograme;

to reduce to ashes / dust a preface în scrum / în praf şi pulbere;

to reduce smb. to beggary / poverty a aduce pe cineva la / în sapă de lemn;

to reduce flowers to classes a clasifica / a împărţi florile pe clase;

to reduce smb. to despair a aduce pe cineva la disperare;

to reduce a Latin phrase to English a traduce o expresie latinească în englezeste;

to reduce money a converti banii, a face schimb de valută;

to reduce to nothing a reduce la zero;

to reduce smth. to order a aşeza ceva în ordine, a (o)rândui ceva;

to reduce smb. to order a chema pe cineva la ordine;

to reduce in(to) powder a pulveriza, a preface în pulbere;

to reduce a theory into practice a (trans)pune o teorie în practică;

to reduce smb. to reason a învăţa minte pe cineva;

to reduce expenses a reduce / a micşora cheltuielile;

I was reduced to begging am ajuns să cerşesc;

to reduce smth. to a small scale a reduce ceva la scară;

(mar.) to reduce the sail a reduce suprafaţa velică;

to reduce a sauce a (mai) dilua sosul;

to reduce temperature a reduce / a micşora / a coborî temperatura;

to reduce speed a reduce viteza, a încetini;

to reduce the output a reduce / a coborî / a scădea producţia;

(mat.) to reduce a fraction a reduce o fracţie;

(mat.) to reduce fractions to the same denominator a aduce fracţiile la acelaşi numitor;

to reduce smth. to writing a consemna ceva în scris, a aşterne ceva pe hârtie;

to reduce smb. to a lower rank a retrograda pe cineva;

to reduce an N.C.O. to the ranks a degrada un subofiţer.

reduce verb B. intranzitiv

a slăbi, a pierde din greutate;

do you wish to reduce? vrei să slăbeşti?

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The two gentlemen arrived the next day to a very late dinner, affording a pleasant enlargement of the party, and a very welcome variety to their conversation, which a long morning of the same continued rain had reduced very low.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

She had hoped better things from their high ideas of their own situation in life, and was reduced to form a wish which she had never foreseen; a wish that they had more pride; for our cousins Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret; our cousins, the Dalrymples, sounded in her ears all day long.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

IMPDH catalyzes the rate-limiting step in the de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides, and treatment with merimepodib reduces the intracellular guanine nucleotide levels that are required for RNA and DNA synthesis, resulting in antiproliferative and antiviral effect.

(Merimepodib, NCI Thesaurus)

He put his hoof three or four times to them, as if he would signify, that I should reduce them to their former shape, which I presently did, pulling off both my gloves, and putting them into my pocket.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Knowing how genuine was her regard for him, I listened earnestly to her story when she came to my rooms in the second year of my married life and told me of the sad condition to which my poor friend was reduced.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Expression of REIC/DKK3 is normal in healthy cells but reduced or absent in many cancer cells; Forced overexpression of REIC/DKK3 in cancer cells may lead to an induction of tumor cell apoptosis and reduction of tumor cell growth while sparing normal, healthy cells naturally expressing endogenous REIC/DKK3.

(Ad-REIC/DKK3 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

He and his colleagues also are working on energy technologies, such as solar cells and batteries that can improve efficiency and reduce the cost of solar cells, and increase the capacity and reduce the charging time of batteries, he says.

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, Editura Global Info)

There was little else in the volume but a few bearings of places noted in the blank leaves towards the end and a table for reducing French, English, and Spanish moneys to a common value.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Why, here,” said Mrs. Markleham, taking a letter from the chimney-piece above the Doctor's head, “the dear fellow says to the Doctor himself—where is it? Oh! “I am sorry to inform you that my health is suffering severely, and that I fear I may be reduced to the necessity of returning home for a time, as the only hope of restoration.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a fleet and army to reduce them; and I question whether it might be prudent or safe to attempt the Brobdingnagians; or whether an English army would be much at their ease with the Flying Island over their heads.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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