English word boil down comes from English music, Latin duco (I draw, pull. I lead, guide. I prolong. I think, consider.), English allude, Latin -alis, Latin musica (Music (art form).), English monotone, English upright, English pacifism
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| music | English (eng) | (transitive) To seduce or entice with music. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing. |
| duco | Latin (lat) | I draw, pull. I lead, guide. I prolong. I think, consider. |
| allude | English (eng) | (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion. |
| -alis | Latin (lat) | Used to form adjectives of relationship from nouns or numerals. |
| musica | Latin (lat) | Music (art form). |
| monotone | English (eng) | (ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound (mathematics) of a function: having the property of either always decreasing or always increasing. (of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch. |
| upright | English (eng) | (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). (informal) An upright piano.. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.. Short for upright vacuum cleaner. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical [...] |
| pacifism | English (eng) | The doctrine that disputes (especially between countries) should be settled without recourse to violence. |
| reducere | Latin (lat) | |
| primate | English (eng) | (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.. (ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription. (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.. (zoology) A [...] |
| reductio | Latin (lat) | A bringing back, a leading back.. A restoring, restoration. |
| musicalis | Latin (lat) | (Medieval Latin) Of or pertaining to music; musical. |
| reduction | English (eng) | (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a [...] |
| musical | English (eng) | Gifted or skilled in music.. Of or relating to music.. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.. Pleasing to the ear. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting. |
| monotony | English (eng) | (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch. |
| allusion | English (eng) | An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned. |
| boil down | English (eng) | (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).. (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).. (transitive, and, intransitive) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see boil,. |