different between accommodate vs reduce

English

Etymology

1530s, from Latin accommod?tus, perfect passive participle of accommod?; ad + commod? (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?m??de?t/, [??k??m??de?t]
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k?m??de?t/, [??k??m??de?t]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)

1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

   Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit

   • 1712 June 18, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, number 475, collected in The Spectator, volume VII^[1], London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, published 1753, page 15:

     IT is an old Ob?ervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate them?elves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Coun?els to his Inclinations, and advi?e him to ?uch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ?et upon.

2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

   Synonym: reconcile

3. (transitive) To provide housing for.

4. To provide sufficient space for
5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

6. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.

   Synonym: oblige

7. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.

8. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
9. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.

10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

Antonyms

• discommodate (obsolete)

Translations

Adjective

accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)

1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Further reading

• accommodate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accommodate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Adverb

accommod?t? (comparative accommod?tius, superlative accommod?tissim?)

1. suitably

Related terms

• accommod?ti?
• accommod?tus
• accommod?
• accommodus

References

• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• accommodate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??k?m?det]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)

1. accommodate

References

• Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

From Middle English reducen, from Old French reducer, from Latin red?c? (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + d?c? (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???dju?s/, /???d?u?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???du?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Verb

reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)

1. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
2. (intransitive) To lose weight.
3. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
   • 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

     My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion

     nothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it .

   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.

   • Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
4. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

5. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.

6. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
   • 2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.

     Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.

7. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
8. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
9. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
10. (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
11. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
12. (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)

13. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
14. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
15. (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
16. (transitive, Scotland, law) To annul by legal means.
17. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

Synonyms

• (to bring down): cut, decrease, lower
• (cooking): inspissate; see also Thesaurus:thicken

Antonyms

• (to bring down): increase

Related terms

Translations

See also

• reducing agent

References

• reduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin redux (“that returns”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.du.t??e/

Adjective

reduce (plural reduci) (da)

1. returning (from)

   Synonym: ritornato

Noun

reduce m or f (plural reduci)

1. survivor

   Synonym: sopravvissuto

2. veteran (of a conflict)

   Synonyms: veterano, ex combattente

Anagrams

• ducere

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re?du?.ke/, [r??d?u?k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re?du.t??e/, [r??d?u?t???]

Verb

red?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of red?c?

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re.du.ke/, [?r?d??k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re.du.t??e/, [?r??d?ut???]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re.du.ke/, [?r?d??k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re.du.t??e/, [?r??d?ut???]

Adjective

r?duce

1. ablative masculine singular of r??dux
2. ablative feminine singular of r??dux
3. ablative neuter singular of r??dux

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reducere, French réduire, based on duce. Compare the inherited doublet ar?duce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?dut?e/, [re??d?ut?e?]

Verb

a reduce (third-person singular present reduce, past participle redus) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to reduce, to lessen

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• duce

See also

• ar?duce

Spanish

Verb

reduce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of reducir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of reducir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of reducir.