rationalize
— Verb
– English
~ defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
rationalize
— Verb
– English
~ weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
rationalize away
— Verb
– English
~ substitute a natural for a supernatural explanation of; "you can rationalize away all the strange noises you hear--there is no poltergeist in the house!"
rationalize
— Verb
– English
~ remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"
rationalize
— Verb
– English
~ think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"
rationalize
— Verb
– English
~ structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"
rationally
— Adverb
– English
~ in a rational manner; "we must act rationally"
rationalness
— Noun
– English
~ the quality of being consistent with or based on logic
rationed
— Adjective
– English
~ distributed equitably in limited individual portions; "got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar"
rationel
— Adjective
– Danish
~ styret af el. baseret på fornuft, logik og materie ...
rationeringsmærke
— Noun
– Danish
~ lille kupon (klippet ud af et større ark) der unde ...
rationing
— Noun
– English
~ the act of rationing; "during the war the government imposed rationing of food and gasoline"
Ratitae
— Noun
– English
~ used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders
ratite bird
— Noun
– English
~ flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
ratite
— Noun
– English
~ flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds