Difference between Shorten and Reduce

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: VERB

To become shorter.
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Make short or shorter
Make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
Become short or shorter

Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Put down by force or intimidation
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
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
Reduce in size; reduce physically
Be cooked until very little liquid is left
Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
Undergo meiosis
Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
Take off weight
Cut down on; make a reduction in
Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
Make less complex
Make smaller
Lessen and make more modest
Be the essential element
Cook until very little liquid is left
Narrow or limit
Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To become short or shorter.
To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
To make short or shorter.

To undergo meiosis.
To lose weight, as by dieting.
To become diminished.
To pronounce (a stressed vowel) as the unstressed version of that vowel or as schwa.
To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position.
To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value.
To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt.
To add hydrogen to (a compound).
To remove oxygen from (a compound).
To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons.
To turn into powder; pulverize.
To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify.
To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent.
To lower the price of.
To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.
To lower in rank or grade; demote.
To compel to desperate acts.
To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness.
To subject to destruction.
To gain control of; subject or conquer.
To bring to a humbler, weaker, difficult, or forced state or condition; especially.
To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish. : decrease.

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: TRANSITIVE VERB

To reduce sail by taking it in.
To take in the slack of it.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time

To add an electron to an atom or ion.
To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value
To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value
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
To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.
To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair.
To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: OTHER WORD TYPES

To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.
To cause to come short or fail.
To deprive.
To check; confine; restrain.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.
To come short; fail.
To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.
To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.

Reduce physically
Reduce in size
Make a reduction in
Cut down on
Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
Synonyms To lessen, decrease, abate, curtail, shorten, abridge, contract, retrench.
Milit., to take off the establishment and strike off the pay-roll, as a regiment. When a regiment is reduced, the officers are generally put upon half-pay.
In Scots law, to set aside by an action at law; rescind or annul by legal means: as, to reduce a deed, writing, etc.
To adjust (an observed quantity) by subtracting from it effects due to the special time and place of observation, especially, in astronomy, by removing the effects of refraction, parallax, aberration, precession, and nutation, changing a circummeridian to a meridian altitude, and the like.
To prove the conclusion of (an indirect syllogism) from its premises by means of direct syllogism and immediate inference alone.
To change the denomination of (numbers): as, to reduce a number of shillings to farthings, or conversely (see reduction ); change the form of (an algebraic expression) to one simpler or more convenient.
To show (a problem) to be merely a special case of one already solved.
The variations of languages are reduced to rules.
To bring into a class, order, genus, or species; bring within certain limits of definition or description.
To subdue, as by force of arms; bring into subjection; render submissive: as, to reduce mutineers to submission; Spain, Gaul, and Britain were reduced by the Roman arms.
To bring to an inferior condition; weaken; impoverish; lower; degrade; impair in fortune, dignity, or strength: as, the family were in reduced circumstances; the patient was much reduced by hemorrhage.
To bring down; diminish in length, breadth, thickness, size, quantity, value, or the like: as, to reduce expenses; to reduce the quantity of meat in diet; to reduce, the price of goods; to reduce the strength of spirit; to reduce a figure or design (to make a smaller copy of it without changing the form or proportion).
To atone for; repair; redress.
In metallurgy and chem., to bring into the metallic form; separate, as a metal, from the oxygen or other mineralizer with which it may be combined, or change from a higher to a lower degree of oxidation: as, to reduce the ores of silver or copper.
To bring to any specified state, condition, or form: as, to reduce civil affairs to order; to reduce a man to poverty or despair; to reduce glass to powder; to reduce a theory to practice; to reduce a Latin phrase to English.
In surgery, to restore to its proper place, or so that the parts concerned are brought back to their normal topographical relations: as, to reduce a dislocation, fracture, or hernia.
To lead or bring back; restore; resolve to a former state.
Same as puer.

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: RELATED WORDS

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Slim, Abbreviate, Subdue, Concentrate, Slenderize, Foreshorten, Repress, Quash, Tighten, Dilute, Trim, Simplify, Shrink, Cut, Shorten

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: DESCRIBE WORDS

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Thin, Subjugate, Abridge, Slim, Abbreviate, Subdue, Foreshorten, Quash, Tighten, Dilute, Trim, Simplify, Shrink, Cut, Shorten

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

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In this sense, organizations shorten their recruitment process.
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Extremely large abundances will shorten the filament lifetime.
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Giving birth: upright positions shorten first stage labour.
We need to shorten that arc of justice.

Facts that do not justify or excuse an act or offense, but may reduce the degree of moral culpability, and thereby reduce the penalty.
The purpose was to improve airspace efficiency and safety, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and, where possible, reduce exposure to aircraft noise in residential areas.
In addition, this technology will reduce medical errors and potentially reduce medical liability insurance premiums for physicians and other healthcare professionals.
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In turn, a business is better able to reduce debt, reduce costs, fund growth and, in many cases, outperform the competition.
So what are ways to improve system reliability, reduce chemical costs, increase operational efficiency and reduce safety risks caused by the corrosion?
The best way to reduce premiums is to reduce risks.
You can reduce this ratio, the same way you reduce a fraction.
Someways medications may help a resident can be to increase appetite, reduce acid reflux, or reduce nausea.
Never miss an invoice, reduce your average cycle time and reduce costs with operations.

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: QUESTIONS

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SHORTEN AND REDUCE

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: VERB

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: INTRANSITIVE VERB

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: TRANSITIVE VERB

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: OTHER WORD TYPES

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: RELATED WORDS

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: DESCRIBE WORDS

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

SHORTEN vs REDUCE: QUESTIONS