Associations to the word «Subtracted»

Wiktionary

SUBTRACT, verb. (transitive) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number

Dictionary definition

SUBTRACT, verb. Make a subtraction; "subtract this amount from my paycheck".
SUBTRACT, verb. Take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope