Decrease and Header

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

• A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about.
  • usage: "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"
  • synonyms: heading, head
• Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
  • synonyms: lintel
• Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall.
  • synonyms: coping, cope
• A framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters.
• A machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon.
• Soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head. (
• A headlong jump (or fall. )
  • usage: "he took a header into the shrubbery"

• (n.) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.
• (n.) One who heads a movement, a party or a mob; head; chief; leader.
• (n.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.
• (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle or in bathing; as, to take a header.
• (n.) One who or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., especially a machine for heading.
• (n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.