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1) General subject: abate, allay, anesthetize, bate, curtail, cut back (часто on - cut back on education - сокращать расходы на образование), de escalate, de-escalate, decrease, degrade, detract, diminish, discount (доход и т. п.), dock, dull, ease down (напряжение), extenuate, impair, lessen, lower, minify, minimize, minish, mitigate, narrate, narrow, reduce, relieve, remit, retrench, shrink up, slack off (напряжение), slake, slow down, taper off, throttle down, turn down (свет, газ), whittle, cut, scale down, fine away (ся), fine down (ся), fine off (ся), alloy, shortcut, hold down2) Aviation: fine off3) Naval: ease down (количество оборотов машины), slow5) Colloquial: down, cut down (калории; \<i\>Ex.: 7 ways to \<b\>cut down\</b\> on liquid calories\</i\>)7) Military: cut back (напр. интенсивность огня), erode8) Engineering: chop down, decline, decrement, deplete, draw down, ease (давление, натяжение, скорость), knock off, lighten (о массе, нагрузке), relax, scale down (изображение)10) Chemistry: moderate12) Mathematics: depreciate, narrow down, trim13) Railway term: ease up14) Law: abridge15) Economy: adjust downwards, relax (напряжение), scale back, take off16) Accounting: debase (напр. содержание металла в монете), slash17) Automobile industry: retard20) Politics: (ся) diminish21) Psychology: decreasing22) Jargon: rub off, water down23) Oil: decreased24) Special term: decompress25) Business: shorten27) Plastics: eliminate30) Makarov: alleviate (напр., боль), compress, damp, deflate, derate, dwindle, mitigate (наказание), prejudice (шансы, возможности и т.п.), pull down, relax (напр., о напряжении), relax (напряжение и т.п.), remit (о проявлении болезни), remit (о проявлениях болезни), run down (о количестве), slack, slack (напряжение и т.п.), slake (пламя и т.п.), step down, suppress, take down, to de-escalate, cut back, cut down, fall off, damp down (огонь)31) SAP.tech. zoom out32) Scuba diving: depress34) Electrical engineering: drop -
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1) General subject: abbreviate, abridge, axe, blue pencil, boil down, clip, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut down (расходы, статью и т. п.), dock, draw in, epitomize, lop, pare, pare away, pare down, pare off, prune, pull in (расходы), reduce, retrench, shorten, shrink, skeletonize, downsize (персонал; а также уменьшить размеры - I decided to downsize my wardrobe and threw out all my old T-shirts.), make redundant (уволить кого-либо по сокращению штатов), whittle down, lay off (его сократили: he was laid off), (персонал, рабочих, штат и т.д.) rightsize2) Colloquial: slash3) Slang: ax7) Jargon: sack8) Officialese: give notice of redundancy (he was given notice of redundancy)9) SAP.tech. break down -
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1) General subject: abolish, annihilate, annul, blot out, burn away, consume, crush, deactivate (процесс), decimate, depopulate, destroy, dispeople, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish (надежду, любовь, жизнь), immolate, kill off, kill out, liquidate, make a bag, make a bag of, make a bonfire, make a bonfire of, make a good bag, make a good bag of, make away with, neutralize, nuke, obliterate, outroot, overturn, pluck up, pull, pulverize, quell, remove, rip, root away, root out, root up, rubbish, ruin, run down, scathe (критикой, едкой сатирой и т. п.), scotch, smash, squelch, stamp out, sweep, take out, torpedo, tread out, tread under foot, undo, undone, unmake (сделанное), void, wear off, wither (обыкн. шутл.), avoid, defeat, demolish, devour, do away, kill, nullify, overthrow, play the fool with, sweep away, whittle away2) Computers: rape3) Geology: deplete5) Military: blast, blast off the map, disintegrate, dispose (неразорвавшиеся боеприпасы), kill (противника), mow down, reduce to shambles, rub out, snafu7) Bookish: exclude, obliterate (память о чем-л.)8) Agriculture: eradicate (напр. вредителей), keep down (сорняки)9) Chemistry: destruct11) Religion: efface13) Economy: extirpate14) Accounting: wipe15) Australian slang: scrub17) Jargon: stonker18) Special term: deodorize20) Drilling: dissipate21) Makarov: cancel (out) (нейтрализовать, компенсировать), demolish (сносить), disannul, eliminate (напр. насекомых), extirpate (болезни, неграмотность), interfere destructively (о лучах или волнах в явлениях интерференции), undo (сорняки), victimize (растительность), cut up, do away with, cancel out (нейтрализовать компенсировать) -
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whittle — ► VERB 1) carve (wood) by repeatedly cutting small slices from it. 2) make by whittling. 3) (whittle away/down) reduce by degrees. ORIGIN from dialect whittle «knife», from an Old English word meaning «cut, cut off» … English terms dictionary
Whittle — Whit tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whittled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whittling}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp knife or pocketknife. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Whittle, Sir Frank — born June 1, 1907, Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng. died Aug. 8, 1996, Columbia, Md., U.S. British aviation engineer and pilot who invented the jet engine. He obtained his first patent for a turbojet engine in 1930, and in 1936 he cofounded Power… … Universalium
Whittle-le-Woods — infobox UK place latitude= 53.691389 longitude= 2.640775 official name= Whittle le Woods map type= Lancashire population= 4,553 (2001 Census) os grid reference= SD577218 civil parish= Whittle le Woods shire district= Chorley shire county=… … Wikipedia
whittle — whittler, n. /hwit l, wit l/, v., whittled, whittling, n. v.t. 1. to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife. 2. to form by whittling: to whittle a figure. 3. to cut off (a bit). 4. to reduce the amount … Universalium
whittle — [c]/ˈwɪtl / (say witl) verb (whittled, whittling) –verb (t) 1. to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by taking off bits with a knife. 2. to cut off (a bit or bits). –verb (i) 3. to cut bits or chips from wood or the like with a… …
whittle — whit|tle [ˈwıtl] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: whittle large knife (15 19 centuries), from thwittle (14 19 centuries), from thwite to whittle (11 19 centuries), from Old English thwitan] 1.) also whittle down [T] to gradually make something smaller … Dictionary of contemporary English
whittle — UK [ˈwɪt(ə)l] / US / US [ˈhwɪt(ə)l] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms whittle : present tense I/you/we/they whittle he/she/it whittles present participle whittling past tense whittled past participle whittled to make an object out of wood … English dictionary
whittle — I. noun Etymology: Middle English whittel, alteration of thwitel, from thwiten to whittle, from Old English thwītan; akin to Old Norse thveita to hew Date: 15th century archaic a large knife II. verb (whittled; whittling) Date: 1552 … New Collegiate Dictionary
whittle — whit•tle [[t]ˈ(h)wɪt l, ˈwɪt l[/t]] v. tled, tling, n. 1) to cut, trim, or shape (a piece of wood or the like) by carving off bits with a knife 2) to form by whittling 3) to cut off (a bit) 4) to reduce the amount of gradually (usu. fol. by down … From formal English to slang
whittle — whit|tle [ wıtl, hwıtl ] verb transitive to make an object out of wood by cutting pieces off the wood with a small knife ,whittle a way phrasal verb intransitive or transitive to gradually reduce the amount or importance of something: The team… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English