The difference between Cut and Decrease

Cut as a verb (transitive):

To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument. To form or shape by cutting. To wound with a knife. To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin. To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce. To castrate or geld. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.

Cut as a verb (intransitive):

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

Cut as a verb (transitive, social):

To separate, remove, reject or reduce. To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing. To abridge a piece of printed or written work. To reduce, especially intentionally. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.). To ignore as a social snub.

Cut as a verb (intransitive, cinema, audio, usually as imperative):

To cease recording activities.

Cut as a verb (intransitive, cinema):

To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.

Cut as a verb (transitive, film):

To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.

Cut as a verb (transitive, computing):

To remove and place in memory for later use.

Cut as a verb (intransitive):

To enter a queue in the wrong place.

Cut as a verb (intransitive):

To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.

Cut as a verb (transitive, cricket):

To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.

Cut as a verb (transitive, cricket):

To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.

Cut as a verb (intransitive):

To change direction suddenly.

Cut as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

To divide a pack of playing cards into two.

Cut as a verb (transitive, slang):

To write.

Cut as a verb (transitive, slang):

To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.

Cut as a verb (transitive):

To exhibit (a quality).

Cut as a verb (transitive):

To stop or disengage.

Cut as a verb (sports):

To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.

Cut as a verb (bodybuilding):

To lose body mass after bulking, aiming to keep the additional muscle but lose the fat.

Cut as a verb:

To perform (a dancing movement etc.).

Cut as an adjective (participial adjective):

Having been cut.

Cut as an adjective:

Reduced.

Cut as an adjective:

Omitted from a literary or musical work.

Cut as an adjective (of a gem):

Carved into a shape; not raw.

Cut as an adjective (cricket, of a shot):

Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.

Cut as an adjective (bodybuilding):

Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.

Cut as an adjective (informal):

Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation

Cut as an adjective (Australia, NZ, slang):

Emotionally hurt.

Cut as an adjective:

Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.

Cut as an adjective:

Removed from a team roster.

Cut as an adjective (NZ):

Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

Cut as a noun:

An opening resulting from cutting.

Cut as a noun:

The act of cutting.

Cut as a noun:

The result of cutting.

Cut as a noun:

A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.

Cut as a noun:

(specifically) An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river

Cut as a noun:

A share or portion.

Cut as a noun (cricket):

A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.

Cut as a noun (cricket):

Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.

Cut as a noun (sports):

In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.

Cut as a noun (golf):

In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.

Cut as a noun (theatre):

A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.

Cut as a noun (cinema):

A particular version or edit of a film.

Cut as a noun:

The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

Cut as a noun:

The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.

Cut as a noun:

A slab, especially of meat.

Cut as a noun (fencing):

An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.

Cut as a noun:

A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.

Cut as a noun:

A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.

Cut as a noun (archaeology):

A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.

Cut as a noun:

A haircut.

Cut as a noun (graph theory):

The partition of a graph's vertices into two subgroups.

Cut as a noun:

A string of railway cars coupled together.

Cut as a noun:

An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.

Cut as a noun (obsolete):

A common workhorse; a gelding.

Cut as a noun (slang, dated):

The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.

Cut as a noun:

A skein of yarn.

Cut as a noun (slang):

That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.

Cut as a noun (fashion):

A notch shaved into an eyebrow.

Cut as a noun (bodybuilding):

A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.

Decrease as a verb (intransitive):

Of a quantity, to become smaller.

Decrease as a verb (transitive):

To make (a quantity) smaller.

Decrease as a noun:

An amount by which a quantity is decreased.

Decrease as a noun (knitting):

A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See .