Decrease and Chink

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• Ethnic slur. ( offensive term for a person of Chinese descent)
  • synonyms: Chinaman
• A narrow opening as e. G. Between planks in a wall.
• A short light metallic sound.
  • synonyms: click, clink

verb

• Make or emit a high sound.
  • usage: "tinkling bells"
  • synonyms: tinkle, tink, clink
• Fill the chinks of, as with caulking.
• Make cracks or chinks in.
  • usage: "The heat checked the paint"
  • synonyms: check

• (n.) Money; cash.
• (n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
• (v.i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money or other small sonorous bodies.
• (v.t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
• (v.t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
• (n.) A small cleft, rent or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
• (v.i.) To crack; to open.
• (v.t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.