Decrease and Compose

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.

verb

• Form the substance of.
  • usage: "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
• Write music.
  • usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
  • synonyms: write
• Produce a literary work.
  • usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
  • synonyms: write, pen, indite
• Put together out of existing material.
  • usage: "compile a list"
  • synonyms: compile
• Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.
  • usage: "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
• Make up plans or basic details for.
  • usage: "frame a policy"
  • synonyms: frame, draw up

• (v.t.) To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
• (v.t.) To construct by mental labor; to design and execute or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony or a picture.
• (v.i.) To come to terms.
• (v.t.) To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
• (v.t.) To form the substance of or part of the substance of; to constitute.
• (v.t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
• (v.t.) To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.