Subtract
verb
To take away a number or amount from another number or amount.
If you subtract 2 from 5, you get 3.
Often appears as...
- subtract one number
- subtract from total
verb
To remove or take away something from an original total or group, often to make it smaller or less.
You have to subtract the cost of production from the sales revenue to calculate the profit.
Often appears as...
- subtract the cost
- subtract the amount
verb
To take away a number or amount from another number or amount.
If you subtract 2 from 5, you get 3.
Often appears as...
- subtract one number
- subtract from total
verb
To remove or take away something from an original total or group, often to make it smaller or less.
You have to subtract the cost of production from the sales revenue to calculate the profit.
Often appears as...
- subtract the cost
- subtract the amount
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Math Operations
Used mainly for describing actions in basic math calculations.
Children learn how to subtract numbers in elementary school.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Numbers
Can describe reducing anything in quantity, not just numerical values.
If you subtract three apples from the basket, how many are left?
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Result
Subtracting a larger number from a smaller one gives a negative result.
Subtract 5 from 3, and you end up with negative two.
Pro Tip 1/3Math Operations
Used mainly for describing actions in basic math calculations.
Children learn how to subtract numbers in elementary school.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Numbers
Can describe reducing anything in quantity, not just numerical values.
If you subtract three apples from the basket, how many are left?
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Result
Subtracting a larger number from a smaller one gives a negative result.
Subtract 5 from 3, and you end up with negative two.
Pro Tip 1/3Math Operations
Used mainly for describing actions in basic math calculations.
Children learn how to subtract numbers in elementary school.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Numbers
Can describe reducing anything in quantity, not just numerical values.
If you subtract three apples from the basket, how many are left?
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Result
Subtracting a larger number from a smaller one gives a negative result.
Subtract 5 from 3, and you end up with negative two.
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Peter Attia: What if...
With that scare, I got busy changing my diet radically, adding and subtracting things most of you would find almost assuredly shocking. I did this and lost 40 pounds, weirdly while exercising less. I, as you can see, I guess I'm not overweight anymore. More importantly, I don't have insulin resistance.
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
which shows a patch of the universe where the expansions have subtracted out. But you see, as time goes on in gigayears at the bottom, you will see structures evolve as gravity feeds on small, dense irregularities, and structures develop. And we'll end up after 13 billion years
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Dog Does Maths PIPE...
seemed to pick up maths at the age of six months these children have been learning maths for three years at the age four or five they'll start playing with the numbers not necessarily adding them together subtracting them it's more just being able to identify one through
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Daniel Wolpert: The real...
So one way to reconstruct that is to compare the prediction -- which is only based on your movement commands -- with the reality. Any discrepancy should hopefully be external. So as I go around the world, I'm making predictions of what I should get, subtracting them off.
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What we can learn from...
about the universe at large scales, such as, how does gravity work? might be answered by studying these systems. So that was very big. The second things is very hot. Okay, if I take an image of a galaxy cluster, and I subtract away all of the starlight,
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Henry Lin: What we can...
about the universe at large scales, such as, how does gravity work? might be answered by studying these systems. So that was very big. The second things is very hot. Okay, if I take an image of a galaxy cluster, and I subtract away all of the starlight,
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Try something new for 30...
to add a new habit or subtract a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life. There's a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable.
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Try something new for 30...
days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit like watching the news from your life there's a few things that I learned while doing these 30-day challenges the first was instead of the months flying
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Melissa Marshall: Talk...
I want to summarize with an equation. Take your science, subtract your bullet points and your jargon, divide by relevance, meaning share what's relevant to the audience, and multiply it by the passion that you have for
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Time Is But a Stubborn...
instead, with your eyes open. And sit up! Laws of sines and cosines? c squared equals a squared plus b squared, subtract
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Peter Attia: What if...
With that scare, I got busy changing my diet radically, adding and subtracting things most of you would find almost assuredly shocking. I did this and lost 40 pounds, weirdly while exercising less. I, as you can see, I guess I'm not overweight anymore. More importantly, I don't have insulin resistance.
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
which shows a patch of the universe where the expansions have subtracted out. But you see, as time goes on in gigayears at the bottom, you will see structures evolve as gravity feeds on small, dense irregularities, and structures develop. And we'll end up after 13 billion years
Video examples
Dog Does Maths PIPE...
seemed to pick up maths at the age of six months these children have been learning maths for three years at the age four or five they'll start playing with the numbers not necessarily adding them together subtracting them it's more just being able to identify one through
Video examples
Daniel Wolpert: The real...
So one way to reconstruct that is to compare the prediction -- which is only based on your movement commands -- with the reality. Any discrepancy should hopefully be external. So as I go around the world, I'm making predictions of what I should get, subtracting them off.
Video examples
What we can learn from...
about the universe at large scales, such as, how does gravity work? might be answered by studying these systems. So that was very big. The second things is very hot. Okay, if I take an image of a galaxy cluster, and I subtract away all of the starlight,
Video examples
Henry Lin: What we can...
about the universe at large scales, such as, how does gravity work? might be answered by studying these systems. So that was very big. The second things is very hot. Okay, if I take an image of a galaxy cluster, and I subtract away all of the starlight,
Video examples
Try something new for 30...
to add a new habit or subtract a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life. There's a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable.
Video examples
Try something new for 30...
days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit like watching the news from your life there's a few things that I learned while doing these 30-day challenges the first was instead of the months flying
Video examples
Melissa Marshall: Talk...
I want to summarize with an equation. Take your science, subtract your bullet points and your jargon, divide by relevance, meaning share what's relevant to the audience, and multiply it by the passion that you have for
Video examples
Time Is But a Stubborn...
instead, with your eyes open. And sit up! Laws of sines and cosines? c squared equals a squared plus b squared, subtract
Example 1 of 10
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Nick Petrie
American Writer
I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really hard to avoid them, because they don't help me become a better writer. They subtract hours from my day. And a writer's main currency is time. Time to daydream, time to walk and think, time to sit and do the work.
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Mark Wahlberg
American Actor
When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
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Federica Montseny
Spanish Activist
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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Amitava Kumar
Indian Writer
A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.
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Josef Albers
German Artist
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
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Huston Smith
American Theologian
You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Petrarch
Italian Poet
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Nick Petrie
American Writer
I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really hard to avoid them, because they don't help me become a better writer. They subtract hours from my day. And a writer's main currency is time. Time to daydream, time to walk and think, time to sit and do the work.
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Mark Wahlberg
American Actor
When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.
Quote examples
Caroline Knapp
American Writer
These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
Quote examples
Federica Montseny
Spanish Activist
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
Quote examples
Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Quote examples
Amitava Kumar
Indian Writer
A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.
Quote examples
Josef Albers
German Artist
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Quote examples
Huston Smith
American Theologian
You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
Quote examples
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Quote examples
Petrarch
Italian Poet
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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