subtract

CEFRB1

/səbˈtɹækt/

verb

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01
verb
To take one number away from another.
02
verb
Extra detail
To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.

Examples

Subtract three from eight and you get five.
Can you subtract six from ten?

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 1
Synonyms: 3

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If you subtract the $100 for gas from the total cost, it was a fairly inexpensive trip.

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To find the difference, you must blank the smaller number from the larger one.

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I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations. […] The axioms of arithmetic imply that when you expand (a + b)², for example, you get a² + 2ab + b² in the following way: (a + b)² is equal to (a + b)(a + b). Each term in one parentheses multiplies the terms in the other: a × a = a² ; a × b = ab; b × a = ab; b × b = b². Combining the terms, a² + ab + ab + b² = a² + 2ab + b². In a similar way, a² – b², a squared number subtracted from another squared number, called a difference of squares, becomes (a – b)(a + b), which becomes a² + ab – ab – b², which is a² – b².
2022 August 7, Alec Wilkinson, “Could learning algebra in my 60s make me smarter?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023

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Origin

verb

Borrowed from Latin subtractus, perfect passive participle of subtrahō (“to draw from beneath; withdraw, remove”); from sub (“under”) + trahō (“to draw, pull, drag”).

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To find the difference, you must blank— the smaller number from the larger one.

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verb

To find the difference, you must blank the smaller number from the larger one.