Subtracting

Word SUBTRACTING
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Definitions and meanings of "Subtracting"

What do we mean by subtracting?

To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number

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The word "subtracting" in example sentences

Websites will put as many ads as they can without subtracting from the user experience, whether they are targeted or not. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These subatomic events are cancelling out the equivalent temporal components of time and anti-time, thereby ‘subtracting from the universe another quantum from its total store of time’ and depleting ‘the time-store available to the materials of our own solar system’. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The murder mystery feels unnecessary and too standardized subtracting from the overall theme of racism due to skin color or religion on board a US Navy WW II vessel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seems similar, but if you are only allowed to tax income, it’s really very different because the 16th Amendment only allows the government to tax income, so subtracting from the amount owed is very different from adding to the amount owed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The net gain, in the latter case, is determined by subtracting from the gross sale proceeds the seller’s tax basis in the shares sold, adjusted for inflation and other factors as determined in the LISR. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Since I mark questions on an exam by 'subtracting' points from the total for the question, rather than 'giving' points. ❋ Angry Professor (2008)

It's not simply a case of 'subtracting' from elements of knowledge, initially we were left with a big gap between what nature could explain and what we were seeing, but the theory of anthropogenic global warming has been able to fill this gap, and so thus far it is the best theory there is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(such as subtracting three from 1,000, then three from 997, and so on).

Even subtracting a small plant could have much larger effects for regions, such as blackouts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But while we are subtracting the lost agricultural jobs in Mexico shouldn't we be adding the jobs that Mexican workers (many of which are illegal) are gaining in the U.S., since (as the report points out) the remittances they send home are a major component of the Mexican economy? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Natalie Keyssar for the Wall Street Journal Veronika Teuber In Ms. Teuber's defense, she's adding more to the process than she's subtracting. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

External demand, or exports minus imports, contributed 0.1 percentage point to the GDP contraction, after subtracting 0.1 percentage point from the GDP expansion in the previous quarter. ❋ Andrew Monahan (2011)

"We deconstructed the song and put it back together, adding a few influences and subtracting a few," he says. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Then, we can be productive by adding or subtracting to the ice line, and hence the glaciers worldwide, like a rainbird system, delivering the proper amont of water to each contient. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the state imposed a recycling deposit on fertilizer and plant food, and then (after subtracting the cost of overhead to administer the program) refunded the fee for recycled clippings, you would have people lining up to do yardwork for you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The index is calculated by subtracting the percentage of firms saying business conditions are bad from those saying they are good. ❋ Megumi Fujikawa (2011)

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