Decrease and Fold

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

fold

An angular or rounded shape made by folding.
- usage: "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow"
- synonyms: crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend
A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
- synonyms: congregation, faithful
A geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock.
- synonyms: folding
A group of sheep or goats.
- synonyms: flock
A folded part (as in skin or muscle.
- synonyms: plica
A pen for sheep.
- synonyms: sheepfold, sheep pen, sheepcote
The act of folding.
- usage: "he gave the napkins a double fold"
- synonyms: folding

Bend or lay so that one part covers the other.
- usage: "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"
- synonyms: fold up, turn up
Incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating.
- usage: "Fold the egg whites into the batter"
Cease to operate or cause to cease operating.
- usage: "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P. M."; "close up the shop"
- synonyms: close up, close, shut down, close down
Confine in a fold, like sheep.
- synonyms: pen up
Become folded or folded up.
- usage: "The bed folds in a jiffy"
- synonyms: fold up

(v.t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
(n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
(v.t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.
(v.) That which is folded together or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
(v.t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
(n.) A boundary; a limit.
(n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
(v.i.) To confine sheep in a fold.
(v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
(v.i.) To become folded, plaited or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
(v.t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
(v.t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
(v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary