The difference between Decline and Increase

When used as nouns, decline means downward movement, fall, whereas increase means an amount by which a quantity is increased.

When used as verbs, decline means to move downwards, to fall, to drop, whereas increase means (of a quantity, etc.) to become larger or greater.

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  1. Decline as a noun:

    Downward movement, fall.

  2. Decline as a noun:

    A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.

  3. Decline as a noun:

    A weakening.

  4. Decline as a noun:

    A reduction or diminution of activity.

  1. Decline as a verb (intransitive):

    To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

    Examples:

    "The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001."

  2. Decline as a verb (intransitive):

    To become weaker or worse.

    Examples:

    "My health declined in winter."

  3. Decline as a verb (transitive):

    To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

  4. Decline as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to decrease or diminish.

  5. Decline as a verb:

    To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

    Examples:

    "a line that declines from straightness"

    "conduct that declines from sound morals"

  6. Decline as a verb (transitive):

    To refuse, forbear.

    Examples:

    "On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer."

  7. Decline as a verb (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns):

    To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.

  8. Decline as a verb (by extension):

    To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  9. Decline as a verb (American football, Canadian football):

    To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.

  1. Increase as a verb (intransitive):

    (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

    Examples:

    "His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money."

  2. Increase as a verb (transitive):

    To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.

  3. Increase as a verb:

    To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

  4. Increase as a verb (astronomy, intransitive):

    To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

    Examples:

    "The Moon increases."

  1. Increase as a noun:

    An amount by which a quantity is increased.

  2. Increase as a noun:

    For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger

  3. Increase as a noun (knitting):

    The creation of one or more new stitches; see .

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