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Red-tape
a.
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Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.
Red-tapism
n.
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Strict adherence to official formalities.
Red-tapist
n.
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One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.
Redthroat
n.
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A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
Redtop
n.
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A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
Redub
v. t.
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To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.
Reduced
imp. & p. p.
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of Reduce
Reducing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Reduce
Reduce
n.
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Reduce
n.
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To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
Reduce
n.
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To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
Reduce
n.
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To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
Reduce
n.
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To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
Reduce
n.
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To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
Reduce
n.
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To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
Reduce
n.
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To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
Reduce
n.
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To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
Reducement
n.
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Reduction.
Reducent
a.
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Tending to reduce.
Reducent
n.
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A reducent agent.
Reducer
n.
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One who, or that which, reduces.
Reducible
a.
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Capable of being reduced.
Reducibleness
n.
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Quality of being reducible.
Reducing
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a & n. from Reduce.
Reduct
v. t..
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To reduce.
Reductibility
n.
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The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.
Reduction
n.
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The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.
Reduction
n.
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The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
Reduction
v. t.
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The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
Reduction
v. t.
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The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.