to compress wood

древеси́на ж.

1. (изправено) stand 2. (котлон, ютия) plug in 3. (перде, знаме, сергия. обява, афиш, антена, вьзпоминателна плоча и пр.) put up 4. (помествам във вестник) insert;(mop) spread 5. (стълб, ограда, километрични камъни, антена и пр.) set up 6. (телефонна слушалка) put down, replace, cradle 7. (хастар, грамофонна игла, препинателен знак и пр.) put in 8. (чайник, мазилка, подкова, шапка, презрамка, белезници, кръпка, подметка, марка, грамофонна плоча и пр.) put on 9. СЛАГАМ (закачам) картина put up a picture 10. СЛАГАМ ce (докарвам се) play up (пред, на to), fawn (upon), tоady (to) 11. СЛАГАМ в джоба си (и прен. обсебвам) pocket 12. СЛАГАМ в джоба си (превъзхождам) be way and above, be head and shoulders above 13. СЛАГАМ в кавички вж. кавички 14. СЛАГАМ вентузи на cup 15. СЛАГАМ всички под един знаменател/в един кош/в един кю 16. СЛАГАМ въглища в печката feed coal to the stove 17. СЛАГАМ въглища в пещ stoke a furnace 18. СЛАГАМ граница на put a limit to 19. СЛАГАМ граници put limits, set up bounds 20. СЛАГАМ гума fix a tyre to a wheel 21. СЛАГАМ дата (на писмо и пр.) date 22. СЛАГАМ дете да си легне put a child to bed 23. СЛАГАМ дърва на огъня put some wood on the fire 24. СЛАГАМ закуска/обед set out/lay breakfast/dinner 25. СЛАГАМ изкуствен зъб insert an artificial tooth 26. СЛАГАМ инжекция на give s.o. an injection 27. СЛАГАМ кандидатурата си put o.s. forward as a candidate 28. СЛАГАМ капан put/set a trap 29. СЛАГАМ катанец fasten on a padlock 30. СЛАГАМ ключалка fix on a lock 31. СЛАГАМ компрес/лапа/ превръзка на apply a compress/poultice/ bandage to 32. СЛАГАМ крак връз крак throw one leg over the other,cross o.'s legs 33. СЛАГАМ краката си на стол put o.'s legs up on a chair 34. СЛАГАМ кран на тръба fit a tap on a pipe 35. СЛАГАМ крушка screw in/fix a bulb 36. СЛАГАМ кръпка на put a patch on 37. СЛАГАМ лист хартия на пишеща машина insert a sheet of paper into a typewriter 38. СЛАГАМ масата set/lay the table, lay the cloth 39. СЛАГАМ мини lay mines 40. СЛАГАМ мрежа put out a net 41. СЛАГАМ на диета put on a diet 42. СЛАГАМ на дневен ред, СЛАГАМ в ред вж. ред 43. СЛАГАМ настрана (скътвам) put by/aside 44. СЛАГАМ някого да седне seat s.o. 45. СЛАГАМ обектив на фотоапарат fit a lens on a camera 46. СЛАГАМ основите на lay the foundations of 47. СЛАГАМ печат на apply/ affix a seal to 48. СЛАГАМ пиявици put/apply leeches 49. СЛАГАМ под възбрана lay under embargo 50. СЛАГАМ под ключ put under lock and key 51. СЛАГАМ под печат send to the press 52. СЛАГАМ подметки на обуща resole shoes 53. СЛАГАМ подписа си на put/affix o.'s signature to 54. СЛАГАМ покривка на масата spread a table-cloth over a table 55. СЛАГАМ превръзка на рана bandage/ dress a wound 56. СЛАГАМ препинателни знаци put in the stops 57. СЛАГАМ протеза fit with an artificial limb 58. СЛАГАМ пръст на устата си put/lay o.'s finger to o.'s lips 59. СЛАГАМ пръстен на пръста си slip/put a ring on o.'s finger 60. СЛАГАМ ръка на прен. вж. ръка 61. СЛАГАМ ръка на сърцето си lay o.'s hand on o.'s heart 62. СЛАГАМ ръка на ухото си cup o.'s hand to o.'s ear. shade o.'s hand to o.'s ear, shade o.'s ear with o.'s hand 63. СЛАГАМ ръката си на рамото на lay o.'s hand on s.o.'s shoulder 64. СЛАГАМ ръце в джобовете си put o.'s hands in(to) o.'s pockets 65. СЛАГАМ си (шапка, обувки и пр.) put on 66. СЛАГАМ си подметки have o.'s shoes (re-)soled 67. СЛАГАМ стъкло на прозорец fix glass in a window, fit a window with glass 68. СЛАГАМ тапа на бутилка fit a stopper into a bottle 69. СЛАГАМ телефон install a telephone 70. СЛАГАМ термометър на take the temperature of 71. СЛАГАМ хастар put/fit a lining in 72. СЛАГАМ храна пред set out food before 73. СЛАГАМ часовник един час напред put a watch forward one hour 74. СЛАГАМ часовник на... set a watch at... 75. СЛАГАМотгоре lay on, superimpose 76. не СЛАГАМ в устата си not touch 77. не съм слагал нищо в устата си от сутринта I haven't touched food all day 78. сложа put, place, set, lay

1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.

Ex: A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.

Ex: In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.

Ex: The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.

Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.

Ex: Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.

Ex: Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.

Ex: More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.

Ex: The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.

Ex: If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.

Ex: Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.

Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.

Ex: But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.

Ex: 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.

Ex: Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.

Ex: This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.

Ex: Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.

Ex: He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.

Ex: Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.

Ex: In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.

Ex: By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.

Ex: However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.

Ex: The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.

Ex: However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.

Ex: Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.

Ex: The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.

Ex: Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.

Ex: May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.

Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.

Ex: The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.

Ex: You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.

Ex: The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.

Ex: They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.

* que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.

* reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.

* reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.

* reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.

* reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.

* reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.

* reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].

* reducir costes = reduce + costs.

* reducir de plantilla = downsize.

* reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.

* reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.

* reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.

* reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.

* reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.

* reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.

* reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.

* reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.

* reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.

* reducir el valor = reduce + value.

* reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.

* reducir gradualmente = scale down.

* reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.

* reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.

* reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.

* reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.

* reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.

* reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.

* reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.

* reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.

* reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.

* reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.

* reducir progresivamente = phase out.

* reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.

* reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.

* reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).

* reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.

 

reducir ( conjugate reducir) verbo transitivo
1

‹velocidad/producción/consumo› to reduce;

reducir algo A algo to reduce sth to sth;
reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth by sth

2


quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes

3 ( dominar) ‹enemigo/rebeldes› to subdue;
‹ ladrón› to overpower
reducirse verbo pronominal:

reducir
I verbo transitivo
1 (disminuir) to reduce
reducir algo en algo, to reduce sthg by sthg
(gastos, consumo, etc) to cut (down), minimize
2 (convertir, transformar) to reduce: el incendio redujo el bosque a cenizas, the fire reduced the wood to ashes
3 (subyugar) to subdue
II vi Auto to change down, US to downshift

' reducir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
bajar
- ceniza
- encaminada
- encaminado
- moler
- disminuir
- minimizar
- mínimo
- mira
English:
administrative
- austerity
- ax
- axe
- change down
- corner
- curtail
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- decrease
- deficit
- deplenish
- deplete
- depress
- downsize
- effective
- halve
- lighten
- lower
- narrow down
- prune
- pulp
- rate
- receive
- reduce
- retrench
- scale down
- shorten
- slow
- wind down
- bring
- cost
- deaden
- decelerate
- diminish
- discount
- get
- lessen
- loss
- minimize
- over
- pare
- scale
- slacken
- traffic
- whittle
- wind
[gastos, costes, impuestos, plantilla] to cut; [producción] to cut (back on); [atracador, ladrón, sublevados] to overpower

вж. слагам