Decrease and Weight

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

weight

The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity.
Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms.
- synonyms: free weight, exercising weight
The relative importance granted to something.
- usage: "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
- synonyms: weightiness
An artifact that is heavy.
An oppressive feeling of heavy force.
- usage: "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
A system of units used to express the weight of something.
- synonyms: system of weights
A unit used to measure weight.
- usage: "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
- synonyms: weight unit
Statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance.
- synonyms: weighting

Weight down with a load.
- synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down
Present with a bias.
- usage: "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
- synonyms: slant, angle

(v.t.) To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.
(v.t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
(v.t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
(v.t.) A scale or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
(v.t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
(v.t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
(v.t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
(v.t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
(v.t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
(v.t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
(v.t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Either Gross' Weight', Net Weight, or Tare Weight.