Презентация слова "Reduce"

Prezentation of the word ‘Reduce’

by Aliya Sageeva

According to the Cambridge Dictionary

  Reduce

• to make something less

сокращать, уменьшать, снижать

To reduce air pollution

The number of employees was 

reduced from  500  to  300.

• to add one or more electrons to a substance or to remove oxygen from a substance

- восстанавливать, раскислять

Phrasal verbs

• reduce sth to sth

to destroy something, especially 

something that has been built - уничтожать

EX.The earthquake reduced the city to 

rubble.

reduce sb to sth/doing sth

to make someone unhappy or cause them to be in a bad situation доводить кого-либо до чего-либо

EX. She was  reduced to tears  by his comments.

Words that rhyme with reduce

• abstruse, abuse, adduce, Ballets Russes, Belarus, Bruce, burnous, caboose, charlotte russe, conduce, deduce, deuce, diffuse, douce, educe, excuse, goose, induce, introduce, juice, Larousse, loose, luce, misuse, moose, mousse, noose, obtuse, Palouse, produce, profuse, puce, recluse, Rousse, seduce, sluice, Sousse, spruce, traduce, truce, use, vamoose, Zeus

According to V.D.Arakin

• reduce уменьшать, сокращать, понижать
• to reduce the speed – сбавить скорость
• to reduce the taxes – понизить налоги
• to reduce the book to 200 pages – сократить книгу до 200 страниц
• to reduce the town to ashes – сжечь город дотла
• to reduce the building to rubble – превратить дом в руины (rubble – некрупный камень )
• to reduce to the ranks – разжаловать в рядовые

Your speed must be reduced to the city speed limit as soon as you cross the border.

Taxes should be reduced to an amount that people can afford to pay.

The book will have to be reduced to 300 pages.

The whole town was reduced to ashes in the bombing.

• 2) привести в определенное состояние
• to reduce the class to silence – добиться тишины в классе
• Hunger reduced the dog to skin and bone – от голода от собаки остались кожа да кости
• To reduce smb’s argument to nonsense – сделать чей - л довод бессмыслицей
• To reduce smb. to extreme poverty – довести до крайней нищеты
• To reduce smb. to desperate shifts – довести к - л до крайности
• To reduce to an absurdity – довести до абсурда

The new teacher was quickly able to reduce the noisy class to silence.

Hunger had reduced the poor dog to skin and bone.

His opponent's clever speech reduced the speaker's argument to nonsense.

• To reduce by / to : by – на (определенную величину), to – до (какого-либо уровня)
• To reduce someone to tears – довести к - л до слез
• Syn . decrease – уменьшать, убавлять, сокращать
• lessen – уменьшать(ся), преуменьшать, недооценивать
• diminish – уменьшать, убавлять, сокращать
• abate – ослаблять, уменьшать(ся), утихать
• dwindle – сокращаться, убывать, истощаться, вырождаться, приходить в упадок
• reduction – снижение, сокращение, понижение, скидка
• to be sold at a ( great ) reduction in price – продаваться по большой скидке
• a reduction in the staff – сокращение рабочего состава
• reduced salary – пониженная зарплата
• Syn . discount – скидка, льгота

Translate:

• A new one-piece case also reduces size and cost.
• This drastically reduces the cost and size of a tunable solution to the system vendor.
• It is not surprising that Europeans are prepared to pay a considerable amount to reduce the risk of such a change.