Word Meanings - SUBTRACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4. (more info) beneath, withdraw, remove; sub under + trahere to draw. See Trace, v.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBTRACT)

• Deduct
• Subtract
• bate
• remove

Related words: (words related to SUBTRACT)

• DEDUCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
• DEDUCTIVELY
  By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBTRACTIVE
  Having the negative sign, or sign minus. (more info) 1. Tending, or having power, to subtract.
• SUBTRACTION
  The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• DEDUCT
  Etym: 1. To lead forth or out. A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall. 2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.
• SUBTRACT
  To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4. (more info) beneath, withdraw, remove; sub under + trahere to draw. See Trace, v.
• SUBTRACTER
  1. One who subtracts. 2. The subtrahend.
• DEDUCTIBLE
  1. Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning. 2. Deducible; consequential.
• DEDUCTION
  1. Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely. 2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as,
• DEDUCTOR
  The pilot whale or blackfish.