reduce vs value

reduce

verb
  • To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture. 

  • To annul by legal means. 

  • To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".) 

  • To lose weight. 

  • To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment. 

  • To bring to an inferior state or condition. 

  • To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value. 

  • To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. 

  • To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form. 

  • To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen. 

  • To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. 

  • To strike off the payroll. 

  • To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off. 

  • To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter. 

  • To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm. 

  • To reform a line or column from (a square). 

value

verb
  • To hold dear. 

  • To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. 

  • To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. 

  • To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. 

noun
  • The degree of importance given to something. 

  • The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc. 

  • The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc. 

  • The relative duration of a musical note. 

  • That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. 

  • The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else. 

  • The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. 

  • Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined. 

  • Precise meaning; import. 

How often have the words reduce and value occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )