Decrease and Mix

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 commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients.
  • synonyms: premix
• An event that combines things in a mixture.
  • usage: "a gradual mixture of cultures"
  • synonyms: mixture
• The act of mixing together.
  • usage: "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"
  • synonyms: commixture, admixture, mixture, intermixture, mixing

verb

• Mix together different elements.
  • usage: "The colors blend well"
  • synonyms: blend, flux, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
• Open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups.
  • usage: "This school is completely desegregated"
  • synonyms: desegregate, integrate
• Combine (electronic signals. )
  • usage: "mixing sounds"
• Add as an additional element or part.
  • usage: "mix water into the drink"
  • synonyms: mix in
• To bring or combine together or with something else.
  • usage: "resourcefully he mingled music and dance"
  • synonyms: mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
• Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.
  • usage: "shuffle the cards"
  • synonyms: shuffle, ruffle

• (v.i.) To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.
• (v.t.) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
• (v.t.) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
• (v.i.) To associate; to mingle.
• (v.t.) To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.