subtract
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make a subtraction
subtract this amount from my paycheck
Types & categories
- calculate hypernym
- carry back hyponym
Related & opposite
- add together antonym
- subtraction derivation
- subtraction derivation
- subtractive derivation
- arithmetic domain topic
Sense 2 verb
take off or away
this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French
Types & categories
- reduce hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | add together |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subtraction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subtraction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subtractive |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | arithmetic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | calculate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | carry back |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | reduce |