Decrease and Flag

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

• Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
• A listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc..
  • synonyms: masthead
• Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
  • synonyms: iris, fleur-de-lis, sword lily
• A rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device.
  • synonyms: signal flag
• Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green.
  • synonyms: pin
• Stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones.
  • synonyms: flagstone
• A conspicuously marked or shaped tail.

verb

• Communicate or signal with a flag.
• Provide with a flag.
  • usage: "Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"
• Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness.
  • synonyms: sag, droop, swag
• Decorate with flags.
  • usage: "the building was flagged for the holiday"
• Become less intense.
  • synonyms: ease up, ease off, slacken off

• (v.t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
• (n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc. or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
• (v.t.) To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
• (n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
• (n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.
• (v.i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
• (v.t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
• (n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
• (v.t.) To furnish or deck out with flags.
• (n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
• (n.) A flat stone used for paving.
• (n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
• (v.i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
• (n.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
• (v.t.) To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
• (v.t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.
• (v.t.) To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief or the like to arouse the animal's curiosity.
• (n.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; -- called also flag feather.

Flag is a pattern reflecting price fluctuations within a narrow range, generating a rectangular area on a graph both prior to and after sharp rises or declines.