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change vs reduce

reduce vs change

change is a noun but reduce is not a noun.

change and reduce both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
change Yes No Yes No
reduce No No Yes No
As verbs, reduce is a hyponym of change; that is, reduce is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than change:
  • change: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
  • reduce: 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
Other hyponyms of change include freshen, freshen up, refresh, refreshen, dress, get dressed, acquire, develop, get, grow, produce, regenerate, shade, gel, animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize, convert, creolize, mutate, experience, have, decrepitate, suburbanise, suburbanize, roll, roll up, glass, glass over, glaze, glaze over, grow, turn, barbarise, barbarize, alkalinise, alkalinize, change by reversal, reverse, turn, change integrity, change form, change shape, deform, form, change state, turn, climb up, jump, rise, assimilate, dissimilate, dissimilate, change magnitude, modify, deaden, break, crumble, decay, dilapidate, mildew, mold, mould, hydrate, dry, dry out, strengthen, distil, distill, deoxidise, deoxidize, crack, oxidate, oxidise, oxidize, grow, mellow, mellow out, melt, soften, ionise, ionize, stabilise, stabilize, destabilise, destabilize, lighten, lighten up, color, colour, discolor, discolour, discolor, contract, narrow, darken, dim, boil, break, check, crack, transpire, resume, take up, change surface, sublimate, sublime, cool, cool down, cool off, warm up, warm, warm up, metamorphose, transform, transmute, convert, dull, get used to, complexify, ramify, Americanise, Americanize, develop, modernise, modernize, stiffen, tighten, break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad, give way, yield, harden, indurate, harden, indurate, suffuse, hush, normalise, normalize, reorient, purify, digest, regress, foul, decalcify, industrialise, industrialize, decarboxylate, spot, find, get, incur, obtain, receive, acetylate, acetylise, acetylize, acquire, adopt, assume, take, take on, prim, capacitate, caseate, caseate, clinker, cure, dawn, salinate, desalinate, desalinise, desalinize, desalt, shallow, shoal, steepen, superannuate, ulcerate, vitrify, vulcanise, vulcanize, dull, pall, become flat, die, pall, saponify, go, move, run, come, catch, catch on, develop, grow, fly, acquire, develop, evolve, assibilate, smoothen, turn on, drop, break into, change, deepen, concretise, concretize, decay, commute, transpose, introject, shift, swing, fall, fall, reflate, hydrolyse, hydrolyze, fold, fold up, gelatinise, gelatinize, felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up, recombine, feminise, feminize, obsolesce, plasticise, plasticize, recede, defervesce, incandesce, calcify, drift, play out, conjugate, isomerise, isomerize, evaporate, vaporise, indurate, gradate, keratinise, keratinize, opacify, mature, rejuvenate, sequester, transaminate, vesiculate, undulate, vascularise, vascularize, crash, professionalise, professionalize, shift, flip, flip out, gum, repress, shear, damage, synthesize, come around, come round, promote, divide, part, separate, arrange, format, fall for, ascend, move up, rise, change posture, settle, break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way, undergo, solarise, solarize, occult, pass, depart, leave, pull up stakes, liberalise, liberalize, stratify, democratise, democratize, loosen, relax, reticulate, flocculate, carbonate, come in, go out, stagnate, make, frost over, ice over, ice up.
change (noun) reduce (noun)
the action of changing something
a different or fresh set of clothes
a thing that is different
a difference that is usually pleasant
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
the result of alteration or modification
coins of small denomination regarded collectively
the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
change (verb) reduce (verb)
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature take off weight
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation cut down on; make a reduction in
become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence narrow or limit
change clothes; put on different clothes cook until very little liquid is left
exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category 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
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another make smaller
remove or replace the coverings of reduce in size; reduce physically
become deeper in tone make less complex
change from one vehicle or transportation line to another reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
give to, and receive from, one another lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
be cooked until very little liquid is left
be the essential element
destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
undergo meiosis
reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
lessen and make more modest
simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
put down by force or intimidation
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