The difference between Decline and Wane
When used as nouns, decline means downward movement, fall, whereas wane means a gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
When used as verbs, decline means to move downwards, to fall, to drop, whereas wane means to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.
check bellow for the other definitions of Decline and Wane
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Decline as a noun:
Downward movement, fall.
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Decline as a noun:
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
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Decline as a noun:
A weakening.
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Decline as a noun:
A reduction or diminution of activity.
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Decline as a verb (intransitive):
To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
Examples:
"The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001."
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Decline as a verb (intransitive):
To become weaker or worse.
Examples:
"My health declined in winter."
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Decline as a verb (transitive):
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
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Decline as a verb (transitive):
To cause to decrease or diminish.
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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"
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Decline as a verb (transitive):
To refuse, forbear.
Examples:
"On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer."
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Decline as a verb (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns):
To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
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Decline as a verb (by extension):
To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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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.
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Wane as a noun:
A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
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Wane as a noun:
The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
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Wane as a noun (literary):
The end of a period.
Examples:
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Wane as a noun (woodworking):
A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
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Wane as a verb (intransitive):
To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
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Wane as a verb (intransitive):
Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
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Wane as a verb (intransitive, astronomy):
Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
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Wane as a verb (intransitive):
Said of a time period that comes to an end.
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Wane as a verb (intransitive, archaic):
To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
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Wane as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To cause to decrease.
Examples:
"rfquotek Ben Jonson"
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Wane as a noun (Scotland, slang):
A child.
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Wane as a noun (chiefly, Northern England, and, Scotland, obsolete):
A house or dwelling.