Contract vs. Reduce

Difference Between Contract and Reduce

Contractnoun

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

Marriage is a contract.

Reduceverb

(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.

Contractnoun

(legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.

Reduceverb

(intransitive) To lose weight.

Contractnoun

(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

Reduceverb

(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

to reduce a sergeant to the ranks

Contractnoun

(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.

Reduceverb

(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

to reduce a province or a fort

Contractnoun

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

Reduceverb

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

to reduce a city to ashes

Contractadjective

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

Reduceverb

To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

Contractadjective

(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

Reduceverb

To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

Contractverb

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

The snail's body contracted into its shell.to contract one's sphere of action

Reduceverb

To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

Contractverb

(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".

Reduceverb

To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

Contractverb

(transitive) To enter into a contract with. en

Reduceverb

To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.

Contractverb

(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

Reduceverb

To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form

Contractverb

(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

to contract for carrying the mail

Reduceverb

To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").

It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.

Contractverb

(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.to contract a debt

Reduceverb

To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

Contractverb

(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).

Reduceverb

To reform a line or column from (a square).

Contractverb

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

Reduceverb

To translate (a book, document, etc.).

a book reduced into English

Contractverb

To betroth; to affiance.

Reduceverb

cut down on; make a reduction in;

reduce your daily fat intakeThe employer wants to cut back health benefits

Contractnoun

a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

Reduceverb

make less complex;

reduce a problem to a single question

Contractnoun

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

Reduceverb

bring to humbler or weaker state or condition;

He reduced the population to slavery

Contractnoun

a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

Reduceverb

simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

Contractverb

enter into a contractual arrangement

Reduceverb

lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation;

She reduced her niece to a servant

Contractverb

engage by written agreement;

They signed two new pitchers for the next season

Reduceverb

be the essential element;

The proposal boils down to a compromise

Contractverb

squeeze or press together;

she compressed her lipsthe spasm contracted the muscle

Reduceverb

reduce in size; reduce physically;

Hot water will shrink the sweaterCan you shrink this image?

Contractverb

become smaller or draw together;

The fabric shrankThe balloon shrank

Reduceverb

lessen and make more modest;

reduce one's standard of living

Contractverb

be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;

He got AIDSShe came down with pneumoniaShe took a chill

Reduceverb

make smaller;

reduce an image

Contractverb

make smaller;

The heat contracted the woollen garment

Reduceverb

to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

Contractverb

compress or concentrate;

Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan

Reduceverb

narrow or limit;

reduce the influx of foreigners

Contractverb

make or become more narrow or restricted;

The selection was narrowedThe road narrowed

Reduceverb

put down by force or intimidation;

The government quashes any attempt of an uprisingChina keeps down her dissidents very efficientlyThe rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land