Difference between Dilute and Reduce

What is the difference between Dilute and Reduce?

Dilute as a verb is to make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water. while Reduce as a verb is to bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

Dilute

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water. To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a low concentration. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

Reduce

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.To lose weight.To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.To bring to an inferior state or condition.To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").

Example sentence: The only way we can reduce the number of these endangered species is to improve and provide additional habitat where they can live and reproduce.

We hope you now know whether to use Dilute or Reduce in your sentence.

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