dip vs decrease

decrease vs dip

dip and decrease both are nouns.

dip and decrease both are verbs.

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

As nouns, decrease is a hypernym of dip; that is, decrease is a word with a broader meaning than dip:

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

Other hypernyms of dip include decrement.

dip (noun)	decrease (noun)
a brief swim in water	the act of decreasing or reducing something
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms	the amount by which something decreases
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow	a change downward
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity	a process of becoming smaller or shorter
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

dip (verb)	decrease (verb)
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid	decrease in size, extent, or range
go down momentarily	make become smaller
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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