Decrease and Plant

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

• Buildings for carrying on industrial labor.
  • usage: "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
  • synonyms: works, industrial plant
• Botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion.
  • synonyms: flora, plant life
• An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience.
• Something planted secretly for discovery by another.
  • usage: "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant"

verb

• Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground.
  • usage: "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
  • synonyms: set
• Fix or set securely or deeply.
  • usage: "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
  • synonyms: implant, engraft, embed, imbed
• Set up or lay the groundwork for.
  • usage: "establish a new department"
  • synonyms: establish, found, constitute, institute
• Place into a river.
  • usage: "plant fish"
• Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive.
  • usage: "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"
• Put firmly in the mind.
  • usage: "Plant a thought in the students' minds"
  • synonyms: implant

• (n.) To furnish or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard or a forest.
• (v.i.) To perform the act of planting.
• (n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
• (n.) To set up; to install; to instate.
• (n.) The sole of the foot.
• (n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
• (n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree or a vegetable with roots.
• (n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
• (n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
• (n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill or a railroad.
• (n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
• (n.) A bush or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
• (n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
• (n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion or a series of cellules or even a single cellule.
• (n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
• (n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

Plant is the assets of a business including land, buildings, machinery, and all equipment permanently employed.