The difference between Elevate and Reduce

When used as verbs, elevate means to raise (something) to a higher position, whereas reduce means to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something.

Elevate is also adjective with the meaning: elevated.

check bellow for the other definitions of Elevate and Reduce

  1. Elevate as a verb (transitive):

    To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.

  2. Elevate as a verb (transitive):

    To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

  3. Elevate as a verb (transitive):

    To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).

  4. Elevate as a verb (transitive):

    To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.

  5. Elevate as a verb (transitive):

    To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.

    Examples:

    "to elevate the voice"

  6. Elevate as a verb (dated, colloquial, humorous):

    To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.

  7. Elevate as a verb (obsolete, [[Latinism]]):

    To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Jeremy Taylor"

  1. Elevate as an adjective (obsolete):

    Elevated; raised aloft.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Milton"

  1. Reduce as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

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

  2. Reduce as a verb (intransitive):

    To lose weight.

  3. Reduce as a verb (transitive):

    To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

    Examples:

    "to reduce a sergeant to the ranks"

  4. Reduce as a verb (transitive):

    To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

    Examples:

    "to reduce a province or a fort"

  5. Reduce as a verb (transitive):

    To bring to an inferior state or condition.

    Examples:

    "to reduce a city to ashes"

  6. Reduce as a verb (transitive, cooking):

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

  7. Reduce as a verb (transitive, chemistry):

    To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

  8. Reduce as a verb (transitive, metallurgy):

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

  9. Reduce as a verb (transitive, mathematics):

    To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

  10. Reduce as a verb (transitive, computer science):

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

  11. Reduce as a verb (transitive, logic):

    To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form

  12. Reduce as a verb (transitive, legal):

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

    Examples:

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

  13. Reduce as a verb (transitive, medicine):

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

  14. Reduce as a verb (transitive, military):

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

  15. Reduce as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

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

    Examples:

    "a book reduced into English"

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