Subtract

(verb.) take off or away; 'this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French'.

(verb.) make a subtraction; 'subtract this amount from my paycheck'.

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• The Comptometer used in banks is a species of typewriter, as is also the Dudley adding and subtracting machine, known as the Numerograph, and covered by patents Nos. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The members give the impression that they think of prostitution as something that can be subtracted from our civilization without changing the essential character of its institutions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This calls for revision of the original aim; it has to be added to and subtracted from. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We owe to him the definition of a line as length without breadth, and the formulation of the axiom, Equals subtracted from equals leave equals. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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