Decrease and Hole

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

hole

An opening into or through something.
An opening deliberately made in or through something.
One playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course.
- usage: "he played 18 holes"
- synonyms: golf hole
An unoccupied space.
A depression hollowed out of solid matter.
- synonyms: hollow
A fault.
- usage: "he shot holes in my argument"
Informal terms for a difficult situation.
- usage: "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
- synonyms: fix, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
Informal terms for the mouth.
- synonyms: trap, cakehole, maw, yap, gob

(n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
(a.) Whole.
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal or a billiard ball.
(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
(n.) To cut, dig or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
(v.i.) To go or get into a hole.
(n.) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
(n.) A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary