decrease vs dip

dip vs decrease

decrease and dip both are nouns.

decrease and dip both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
decrease	Yes	No	Yes	No
dip	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, dip is a hyponym of decrease; that is, dip is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than decrease:

decrease: the amount by which something decreases
dip: a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

Other hyponyms of decrease include drop, fall, free fall, shrinkage.

decrease (noun)	dip (noun)
the act of decreasing or reducing something	a brief swim in water
the amount by which something decreases	a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
a change downward	a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
a process of becoming smaller or shorter	a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
	a brief immersion
	tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
	a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
	(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
	a depression in an otherwise level surface

decrease (verb)	dip (verb)
decrease in size, extent, or range	stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
make become smaller	go down momentarily
	dip into a liquid while eating
	immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
	plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
	immerse in a disinfectant solution
	scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
	place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
	dip into a liquid
	appear to move downward
	slope downwards
	lower briefly
	switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
	take a small amount from

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