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Meaning of ઘટાડો in English

  • of Curtail
  • To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
  • To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
  • To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
  • To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
  • To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
  • To cause to decrease or diminish.
  • To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
  • To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
  • To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
  • A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
  • That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
  • A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
  • To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
  • To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
  • A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
  • The wane of the moon.
  • of Decrease
  • Becoming less and less; diminishing.
  • Destruction; -- opposed to creation.
  • The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
  • The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
  • The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
  • A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
  • The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
  • A decrease.
  • To decrease.
  • Diminution.
  • The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.
  • The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
  • Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
  • In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.
  • Leave to depart; a dismissing.
  • The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
  • To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
  • To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
  • To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
  • To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
  • To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
  • To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
  • To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
  • To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
  • To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
  • Reduction.
  • The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.
  • The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
  • The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
  • The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.
  • The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
  • The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
  • The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
  • The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
  • By reduction; by consequence.
  • Alt. of Subsidency

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