Decrease and Stint

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

• An unbroken period of time during which you do something.
  • usage: "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
  • synonyms: stretch
• Smallest American sandpiper.
  • synonyms: least sandpiper, Erolia minutilla
• An individual's prescribed share of work.
  • usage: "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"

verb

• Subsist on a meager allowance.
  • usage: "scratch and scrimp"
  • synonyms: scrimp, skimp
• Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities.
  • usage: "sting with the allowance"
  • synonyms: skimp, scant

• (v.i.) To stop; to cease.
• (v.t.) To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
• (v.t.) Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
• (n.) A phalarope.
• (v.t.) Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
• (v.t.) To put an end to; to stop.
• (v.t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
• (n.) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
• (v.t.) To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.