DECLINE vs LOWER: NOUN
- The time of life when the physical and mental powers are failing. Quain.
- A popular term for any chronic disease in which the strength and plumpness of the body gradually diminish, until the patient dies: as, he is in a decline.
- In medicine: That stage of a disease when the characteristic symptoms begin to abate in violence.
- A failing or deterioration; a sinking into an impaired or inferior condition; falling off; loss of strength, character, or value; decay.
- A descending; progress downward or toward a close.
- A bending or sloping downward; a slope; declivity; incline.
- A downward slope; a declivity.
- A deterioration of health.
- A downward movement or fall, as in price.
- A gradual deterioration, as in numbers, activity, or quality.
- The process or result of declining, especially.
- A downward slope or bend
- A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- A condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
- Change toward something smaller or lower
- A frowning; sullenness.
- Hire; reward.
- Cloudiness; gloominess.
- A frown; scowl; frowning; sullenness.
- The lower of two berths
DECLINE vs LOWER: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- Comparative form of low: more low
- Relating to small or noncapital letters which were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case.
- Compar. of low, a.
- Inferior in rank or status
- Of the underworld
- (usually preceded by `no') lower in esteem
- The bottom one of two
DECLINE vs LOWER: VERB
- Refuse to accept
- Grow worse
- Show unwillingness towards
- Go down in value
- Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives inflectfornumbergendercaseetci
- Grow smaller
- Go down
- To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- To make less elevated
- To depress as to direction
- To pull down
- Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- Make lower or quieter
- Move something or somebody to a lower position
- Cause to drop or sink
- Set lower
DECLINE vs LOWER: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw
- To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen
- To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
- To inflect (a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective) for number and case.
- To cause to slope or bend downward.
- To refuse politely: : refuse.
- To draw to a gradual close.
- To sink, as the setting sun.
- To deteriorate gradually; fail.
- To degrade or lower oneself; stoop.
- To bend downward; droop.
- To slope downward; descend.
- To express polite refusal.
- To frown; to look sullen.
- To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease.
DECLINE vs LOWER: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of.
- To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To reduce in value, amount, etc.
- To bring down; to humble.
- To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- To depress as to direction; ; to make less elevated as to object.
- To reduce the height of
- To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; ; sometimes, to pull down.
DECLINE vs LOWER: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
- As of stored charge or current
- A gradual decrease
- Inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- Fall in value
- Not accept as true
- To incline morally; be favorably disposed.
- To incline; tend.
- To approach or draw toward the close.
- To refuse; express refusal: as, he was invited, but declined.
- To stoop, as to an unworthy object; lower one's self; condescend.
- To sink to a lower level; sink down; hence, figuratively, to fall into an inferior or impaired condition; lose strength, vigor, character, or value; fall off; deteriorate.
- To deviate from a course or an object; turn aside; fall away; wander.
- To deviate from a right line; specifically, to deviate from a line passing through the north and south points.
- To bend or slant down; assume an inclined position; hang down; slope or trend downward; descend: as, the sun declines toward the west.
- In grammar, to inflect, as a noun or an adjective; give the case-forms of a noun or an adjective in their order: as, dominus, domini, domino, dominum, domine.
- To refuse; refuse or withhold consent to do, accept, or enter upon: as, to decline a contest; to decline an offer.
- To avoid by moving out of the way; shun; avoid in general.
- To turn aside from; deviate from.
- To cause to deviate from a straight or right course; turn aside; deflect.
- To decrease; diminish; reduce.
- To lower; degrade; debase.
- To cause to bend or slope; bend down; incline; cause to assume an inclined position; depress.
- In chess, to refuse to take a piece or pawn offered.
- To fall; sink; grow less; become lower in any way.
- In music, to change from a high to a low pitch; specifically, in musical notation, to depress; flat: said of changing the significance of a staff-degree or of a note on such a degree by attaching a flat to it either in the signature or as an accidental.
- To depress, as any part of the surface which it is desired shall print lightly from being exposed to a diminished pressure.
- To scrape or cut away, as the surface of a block, in such manner as to leave it highest in the middle; or
- In relief-engraving
- To bring down in spirit; humble; humiliate: as, to lower one's pride; to lower one in the estimation of others.
- To reduce or bring down, as in height, amount, value, estimation, condition, degree, etc.; make low or lower: as, to lower a wall (by removing a part of the top); to lower the water in a canal (by allowing some to run off); to lower the temperature of a room or the quality of goods; to lower the point of a spear or the muzzle of a gun; to lower prices or the rate of interest.
- To cause to descend; let down; take or bring down: as, to lower the sail of a ship; to lower cargo into the hold.
- To strike, as a clock, with a low prolonged sound; toll the curfew.
- To lurk; crouch; skulk.
- To look bad; appear in bad condition.
- To appear dark or gloomy; be clouded; threaten a storm.
- To frown; scowl; look sullen; watch in sullen silence.
DECLINE vs LOWER: RELATED WORDS
- Drop, Decrease, Pass up, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Wane, Fall, Diminution
- Let down, Bring down, Junior, Petty, Frown, Take down, Chthonic, Nether, Lowly, Subordinate, Secondary, Bottom, Inferior, Depress, Less
DECLINE vs LOWER: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Decreases, Slowdown, Deterioration, Decrease, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Fall, Diminution
- Turn down, Subaltern, Bring down, Junior, Petty, Frown, Chthonic, Nether, Lowly, Subordinate, Secondary, Bottom, Inferior, Depress, Less
DECLINE vs LOWER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The world has been in decline ever since.
- Economic changes included a decline in local manufacturing.
- New York, its biggest intraday decline since Sept.
- There is no doubt that the city has suffered from structural decline and that state and city policies have not successfully addressed that decline.
- That difference increased sharply in recent months as the decline in the Treasury yield was greater than the decline in the mortgage rate.
- But with the decline of community participation comes the decline of trust.
- And the cause that increase is a huge decline in mortality, while birth rates were hesitant to decline in parallel with death rates.
- You must use a formal decline letter on all declines, signed by theindividual having authority to approve or decline the loan.
- Some decline, others give in and still others decline formally but accept privately.
- Can treat persons with occupational performance decline or at risk for a decline.
- Class II Lower Division or Lower Second Class Honours from a well ranked higher education institution.
- The lower your DTI, the better chances you have of getting a lower interest rate.
- Mortgage rates are lower than ever, but are lenders keeping them from going even lower?
- NEVER attach two lower anchor assembly connectors to one vehicle lower anchor bar.
- While it is not impossible to get into Harvard with lower scores, the chances are much lower.
- Lower costs would translate into lower rents and enable the city to subsidize more apartments.
- Lower acetate tow selling prices were primarily attributed to lower industry capacity utilization.
- Refinancing at a lower interest rate to lower your monthly payment.
- Pain can affect the lower abdomen and lower back.
- Lower maternal concentrations mean a lower gradient for diffusion and lower fetal concentrations.
DECLINE vs LOWER: QUESTIONS
- When did building of causewayed enclosures decline?
- How fast do Fusarium oxysporum populations decline?
- Can courts decline to overrule legislative enactments?
- Is political participation and engagement in decline?
- Can ex-presidents decline Secret Service protection?
- Does bilingualism protect against cognitive decline?
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- Does increased education accelerate fertility decline?
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