re-, red-

1. To bring down, diminish to a smaller number, amount, extent, etc., or to a single thing: "The store reduced the coat from $100 to $65."
2. In chemistry, to decompose (a compound); to resolve into a simpler compound or into the constituent element; minimize, dilute, moderate: "Water reduces the potency of an alcoholic drink."
3. To decrease one's weight, to slim down to a lower weight: "It's easier to reduce if we simply watch what we eat."

1. The act or process of bringing something down in extent, amount, or degree; diminish.
2. The action or process of making a copy on a smaller scale.

1. The state or fact of not, or no longer, being needed or wanted.
2. Something that is not, or no longer, needed or wanted.
3. The use of a word, or words, whose meaning is already conveyed elsewhere in a passage, without a rhetorical purpose; excessive wordiness, or repetition, when expressing oneself.
4. With computers, the installation of duplicate electronic, mechanical components, or backup systems that are designed to come into use to keep equipment working if their counterparts fail.
5. Duplication of information in telecommunications to reduce the risk of errors.
6. In Britain and Canada, a dismissal from work, or employment (unemployed), because the job or the worker has been deemed no longer necessary: "After being declared redundant, I was told that my services were no longer necessary; so, now I am in a status of redundancy."

1. The use of more words than required to express an idea.
2. Having a word with the same meaning as another word used elsewhere in a written passage without a rhetorical purpose.
3. In excess of what is required or sufficient.
4. Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.

1. To cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: "The mirror reflected the light onto the wall."
2. To give back or show an image of; to mirror.
3. A reference to an act or its resul; to serve to cast or bring credit, discredit, etc. on its performer.
4. To reproduce; to show: "His followers reflected the views of their leader."
5. To throw or cast back; to cause to return or rebound: "Her bitterness reflects gloom on all her family."
6. To think, ponder, or meditate: to reflect on one's virtues and faults.
7. To serve or tend to bring reproach or discredit by association: "His crimes reflected on the whole community."
8. That which serves to give a particular aspect or impression: "The test reflects well on your abilities."

1. The image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material).
2. A fixing of thoughts on something; careful consideration.
3. A thought occurring in consideration or meditation.
4. An unfavorable remark or observation.
5. The return of light, heat, sound, etc., after striking a surface.
6. In anatomy, the bending or folding back of a part upon itself.

1. An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus.
2. Noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
3. Occurring in reaction; responsive.
4. Cast back; reflected, as light, color, etc.
5. Bent or turned back.
6. Designating a radio apparatus in which the same circuit or part performs two functions.

1. Describes a pronoun referring to the same person or thing as another noun or pronoun in the same sentence. The reflexive pronouns in English end in "-self" or "-selves," e.g. "myself," "yourself," "ourselves."
2. Describes a verb that takes a reflexive pronoun as an object, thereby indicating an action that the subject does to or for itself: "He admired himself".
3. Relating to or being the product of a reflex;such as, "a reflexive action in response to the explosive sound."
4. Without thinking; an automatic and involuntary or unthinking.
5. Describes a relation between pairs of logical objects or numbers that are the same or of the same size.

A cabinet or room for storing substances, as food, at a low temperature.