different between roasting vs reduction

English

Etymology

From Middle English rostyng; equivalent to roast +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????st??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?st??/

Verb

roasting

1. present participle of roast
   • 1922, "The Bride's Cookery Primer", Good Housekeeping, Volume 74, page 66

     Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.

Adjective

roasting (comparative more roasting, superlative most roasting)

1. (colloquial) Very hot.

   The day started out cool, but by noon it was roasting.

Noun

roasting (plural roastings)

1. The act by which something is roasted.
   • 1885, Henry Marion Howe, Copper smelting (page 15)

     These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings […]
2. (colloquial) A rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).

   My boss gave me a roasting for last month's sales figures.

Anagrams

• Gorstian, atrogins, organist, signator, strong AI, tragions

English

Etymology

From Middle English reduccion, a borrowing from Old French reducion, from Latin reducti?, reducti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?k??n/
• (Malaysia, Singapore) IPA^(key): /?i?d?k.??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: re?duc?tion

Noun

reduction (countable and uncountable, plural reductions)

1. The act, process, or result of reducing.
2. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.

   A 5% reduction in robberies

3. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
4. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
5. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
6. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
7. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
8. (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
9. (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

   Synonym: taxis

10. (paying) A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.

Synonyms

• (act, process, or result of reducing): decline, lessening; See also Thesaurus:diminution
• (amount by which something is reduced): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement

Antonyms

• (act, process, or result of reducing): elevation, expansion, increase, promotion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation
• (amount by which something is reduced): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
• (chemistry): oxidation

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• introduce