Today in math class we learned about subtraction. From LearnThat.org.
The subtraction of three from four leaves one. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The most notable subtraction is WR Terrell Owens, who was cut in March. From Wordnik.com. [NFC preview: Cowboys putting team squarely in Romo's hands] Reference
The best math we could have from Billary is subtraction from the race, NOW. From Wordnik.com. [The popular vote debate] Reference
I think that practice of subtraction is also what makes it difficult to imagine the framing of Wyeth's paintings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
They WANT bipartisanship but what they offer is a "subtraction" from what Obama wants and an "addition" of NOTHING!!!. From Wordnik.com. [First on the CNN Ticker: RNC slams Obama in first TV ad] Reference
A fat man is builded by great addition, and if desired can be reduced by much subtraction, which is simply a rule of numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
So white must be a kind of "subtraction" of all three colors: rgb. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
Color changing effects such as subtraction, addition, saturation and hue are supported. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
New work was then added in the form of division and subtraction. From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased. From Wordnik.com. [GDP Shows Recovery Continues, But Consumer Spending Drags] Reference
This subtraction from the army that ought to have been used in fighting. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
By Roman notation, without subtraction, fifteen; with subtraction, nine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
"Do you have to do subtraction and addition every time the clock strikes?". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
So there is a very understandable tendency to focus on addition, not subtraction. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Without the subtraction of our all, first, we cannot obtain the addition, his all. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctification] Reference
= -- In the making of a modern home there have been both addition and subtraction. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
In the pure and dry state, and after subtraction of the ash, their composition is. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
Obj. 3: Further, every addition or subtraction of form varies the species (Metaph. viii). From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
The style of many parts of Scripture is such that it will not bear addition or subtraction. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
The lever regulating the C-wheel is set to subtraction, producing negative steps at the disks. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The four principal rules of arithmetic are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. From Wordnik.com. [A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c.] Reference
But any addition or subtraction in forms changes the species, as also in numbers (Metaph. viii). From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
"There was no need for subtraction or division," says John DiBiaggio, president of Tufts University. From Wordnik.com. [What To Chop] Reference
Green's speedy construction of this good Viking ship lollipop was based as much on subtraction as on addition. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Easy Being Green?] Reference
The Commerce Department's activities almost certainly are a net subtraction from the nation's standard of living. From Wordnik.com. [So, The Culprits Are Now The Cure?] Reference
Every fiber either lost was so much subtraction from that balance of power, threatening to pass across the Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Then the man was kind enough to show me how, by simple addition and subtraction, the result wanted could be obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The second problem with early voting is that one of its supposed benefits is actually a subtraction from civic health. From Wordnik.com. [Farewell, Election Day] Reference
And where the aquifers in question do not feed the original source stream system, a big subtraction is again involved. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
With the addition or subtraction of a few circumstances, it is the case of every one of the common drunkards around us. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Under the new method, the short sums in addition or subtraction are mentally computed, during the deal of the cards, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
HANSEN: Sir George Martin once told me that producing sometimes is as much the art of subtraction as it is the art of addition. From Wordnik.com. [Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is] Reference
Children also need to be more physically active in the classroom, not sitting quietly in their seats memorizing subtraction tables. From Wordnik.com. [Why Do Schools Flunk Biology?] Reference
Speller got as high as Baker; Got as far as subtraction -- Did not know anything outside of reading -- Did not know what a newspaper was. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
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