simplify
to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
Origin of simplify
1Other words from simplify
- sim·pli·fi·ca·tion, noun
- sim·pli·fi·ca·tive, adjective
- sim·pli·fi·er, sim·pli·fi·ca·tor, noun
- non·sim·pli·fi·ca·tion, noun
- su·per·sim·pli·fy, verb (used with object), su·per·sim·pli·fied, su·per·sim·pli·fy·ing.
- un·sim·pli·fied, adjective
- un·sim·pli·fy·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with simplify
- simple, simplified , simplistic
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How to use simplify in a sentence
Because the right kitchen tools can help you simplify home cooking and maybe even help you shed a few pounds in the process, we’ve outlined the best products to help you if you’re trying to lose weight by changing your diet.
8 Handy Kitchen Products To Help You Eat Healthier On Your Weight Loss Journey | Charli Penn | October 9, 2020 | Essence.comThe way forward requires that brands simplify complex data analysis and understand key market drivers in real-time, across millions or billions of data points.
BrightEdge launches market insights and shares updates on new purchasing behaviors | Jim Yu | October 9, 2020 | Search Engine WatchThey spent the first year solving a simplified version of the problem, to get a sense of the challenges they were facing.
Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record | Erica Klarreich | October 8, 2020 | Quanta MagazineThe product — available here — is aimed at simplifying management across search and social through automation, but these updates indicate Microsoft is also listening to user feedback requests for additional manual controls and data visibility.
Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center for search and social management adds features, opens beta | Ginny Marvin | October 7, 2020 | Search Engine LandBy drastically simplifying our entire palm oil supply chain, we’re reducing the number of mills we source from and bringing that number down to less than 100 by next year.
How we’re ending deforestation in Mars’ palm oil supply chain | jakemeth | October 7, 2020 | Fortune
Talking about Israel's "rightward" shift is an over-simplification.
This is what Tim Cook is going to suggest today, again as part of a broader simplification effort.
To say that the Black Death ended and the Renaissance began is not only a simplification, but incorrect.
Fact-Checking Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’: 10 Mistakes, False Statements, and Oversimplifications | Noah Charney | May 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir first step should be a revenue-raising tax simplification.
How Can the Republicans Take Back the Majority? | Megan McArdle | November 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTRacism, like any form of bigotry, is a crude simplification, reducing an entire race into a slim range of undesirable qualities.
American Dreams: 1912, ‘The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man’ | Nathaniel Rich | February 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the last Act a good deal of gunpowder is burned advantageously to the simplification of the issue.
But when the modes of production are reduced to one, we cannot, in point of simplification, go any further.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillThis is the broadest simplification to which it is possible to reduce things.
The Hidden Power | Thomas TrowardBut in your simplification, said Evelyn, indicating the table, you dont leave out that sort of thing.
The Angel of Pain | E. F. BensonMy mother asked Mr. Merivale if we might come down and see the simplification of life on its native heath.
The Angel of Pain | E. F. Benson
British Dictionary definitions for simplify
/ (ˈsɪmplɪˌfaɪ) /
to make less complicated, clearer, or easier
maths to reduce (an equation, fraction, etc) to a simpler form by cancellation of common factors, regrouping of terms in the same variable, etc
Origin of simplify
1Derived forms of simplify
- simplification, noun
- simplificative, adjective
- simplifier, noun
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