Decrease and Flow

decrease

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

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

flow

The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases.
- synonyms: flowing
The amount of fluid that flows in a given time.
- synonyms: flow rate, rate of flow
The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
- synonyms: stream
Any uninterrupted stream or discharge.
Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously.
- usage: "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
- synonyms: stream
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.
- usage: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
- synonyms: stream, current
The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause."the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped-Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females-Aristotle
- synonyms: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period

Move or progress freely as if in a stream.
- usage: "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
- synonyms: flux
Move along, of liquids.
- usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
- synonyms: run, feed, course
Cause to flow.
- usage: "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
Be abundantly present.
- usage: "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
Fall or flow in a certain way.
- usage: "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
- synonyms: hang, fall
Cover or swamp with water.
Undergo menstruation.
- usage: "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
- synonyms: menstruate

(v.i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
(v.i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
(v.t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
(n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
(v.i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
(v.i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
(v.t.) To cover with varnish.
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
(v.i.) To become liquid; to melt.
(v.i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
(v.i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
(v.i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary