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1. Icoll. I am reducing я худею /сбрасываю вес/; do you wish to reduce? вы хотите похудеть?2. IIreduce in some manner I've reduced a lot since I've been on a diet я сильно похудел с тех пор, как сижу на диете3. III1) reduce smth. reduce costs (smb.'s income, the output, supplies, the length of a lecture, the term of imprisonment, smb.'s chances, etc.) сокращать /уменьшать/ расходы и т.д., reduce the price (the value of smth., taxes, wages, profits, speed, temperature, pressure, etc.) снижать /понижать/ цену и т.д.; reduce one's weight сбрасывать вес; reduce pace убавить шаг; reduce smb.'s sight (powers of hearing) ослаблять зрение (слух); old age reduces one's power to remember names and figures с возрастом ослабевает память на имена и цифры; reduce the length of a skirt укоротить /подкоротить/ юбку; reduce vitality понижать жизнеспособность2) reduce smth., smb. reduce a city (a people, revolted towns and provinces, rebellious tribes, etc.) покорять /усмирять/ город и т.д.4. IVreduce smth. in some manner reduce smth. sharply (radically, drastically, substantially, materially, markedly, deliberately, etc.) резко и т.д. сокращать /уменьшать/ что-л.5. XI1) be reduced in some manner his temperature was much reduced this morning сегодня утром температура у него сильно упала; be reduce d in smth. the team was materially reduced in number число членов команды было значительно уменьшено /сокращено/2) be reduced to smth. I was reduced to silence я был вынужден замолчать; she is easily reduced to tears ее нетрудно довести до слез; his clothes were reduced to rags его одежда превратилась в лохмотья; his efforts were reduced to almost nothing его усилия были сведены почти что на нет; she was reduced to a shadow она превратилась в тень, от нее осталась тень; he was reduced to stealing он вынужден был воровать3) be reduced to smth. the facts may be reduced to three heads факты могут быть разбиты на три группы /расклассифицированы по трем рубрикам/6. XVIreduce for some time coll. I have been reducing for six weeks я худею /стараюсь похудеть/ уже шесть недель7. XXI11) reduce smb. to smth. reduce the whole family to despair (the inhabitants to terror, the poor people to beggary, them to the level of beasts, etc.) приводить всю семью в состояние отчаяния, довести всю семью до отчаяния и т.д.; reduce the children to obedience добиться от детей послушания; reduce the pupils to discipline приучать учеников к дисциплине; reduce smb. to submission принуждать кого-л. к повиновению; he reduced them to silence он заставил их замолчать; the question reduced them to silence вопрос поверг их в молчание; reduce the population to starvation довести население до голода; reduce smth. (in)to smth. reduce clothes to rags (rags to pulp, this substance into paste, the old book to dust, etc.) превращать одежду в тряпье и т.д.; reduce the house (the town, etc.) to ashes сжечь дом и т.д. дотла; reduce stone to powder стереть камень в порошок; reduce meat to charcoal сжечь мясо до угольев; he reduced irony to art он довел иронию до [уровня] искусства2) reduce smth. to smth. reduce pounds to shillings and pence (yards to feet, a more, complex form to a simpler one, etc.) переводить фунты в шиллинги и пенсы и т.д., reduce an equation to its simplest form упростить уравнение; reduce fractions to the same denominator привести дроби к одному знаменателю; reduce smth. to formulas (to graphs, to charts, to diagrams, to curves and statistical tables, etc.) выражать что-л. формулами и т.д.; представлять что-л. в виде формул и т.д.; reduce smth. to basic principles сводить что-л. к основным принципам; the whole difficulty reduces itself to the question [of] whether he can come вся трудность заключается в том, сможет ли он прийти3) reduce smth. to smth. reduce smth. to a lesser amount уменьшать объем чего-л.; reduce liquid to two thirds of its bulk доводить объем жидкости до двух третей первоначального объема, уменьшать объем жидкости на одну треть; reduce a staff of servants to one сократить штат прислуги до одного человека; reduce smth. by smth. reduce the amount by one half (the party by half the number, the price by 10 per cent, the journey to A by one and a half days, etc.) сокращать /уменьшать/ количество на половину и т.д.4) || reduce smb. to the ranks разжаловать кого-л. в рядовые; reduce a corporal (ни officer, an N. С. О., etc.) to the ranks разжаловать капрала и т.д. в рядовые5) reduce smth. by smth. reduce a fort by a sudden attack взять крепость внезапной атакой8. XXIIreduce smb. to doing smth. reduce them to begging (her to borrowing clothes, etc.) доводить их до нищенства /до того, что они станут просить милостыню/ и т.д. -
2 char
(a) (reduce to charcoal) carboniser, réduire en charbon∎ she had to go out charring to support her family elle a dû faire des ménages pour faire vivre sa famille3 noun(c) Ichthyology omble m chevalier -
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1. n часто лес; рощаa house in the middle of a wood — дом, окружённый лесом
2. n древесина; дерево; лесоматериалplaning-dry wood — древесина, отструганная после сушки
3. n дрова; древесное топливоsmall wood — ветки, сучья, хворост
4. n винная бочка; бочонок для винаstain for wood — протрава для дерева; морилка
5. n изделие из дерева6. n шар7. n клюшка с деревянной ручкой8. n амер. сл. прилавок; стойка9. n собир. деревянные духовые инструментыout of the wood — вне опасности; оставив трудности позади
10. a предназначенный для обработки дерева11. a находящийся в лесу; лесной, дикийwood pigeon — вяхирь, витютень, голубь дикий или лесной
12. a древесныйwood tar — древесная смола, дёготь
13. a дровянойwood fire — костёр, горящие дрова
14. v редк. засаживать деревьями, озеленять; сажать лес15. v редк. запасаться дровами16. v редк. снабжать дровами17. v редк. нагружать лесом18. a арх. сумасшедшийСинонимический ряд:1. forest (noun) forest; thicket; timberland; weald; woodland; woods2. timber (noun) board; boards; firewood; hardwood; heartwood; kindling; logs; lumber; planks; plywood; timber
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