different between droop vs decrease

English

Etymology

From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?pan?, *drup?n? (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewb- (“to drip, drop”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?p, IPA^(key): /?d?u?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p
• Homophone: drupe

Verb

droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)

1. (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
   • 1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl” in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, p. 20,^[1]

     On the brown harvest tree

     Droops the red cherry.

   • a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone

     I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

2. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,^[2]

     Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;

     While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

   • 1676, Thomas Hobbes (translator), Homer’s Iliads in English, London: William Crook, Book 18, p. 289,^[3]

     The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all

     The Vines supported and from drooping staid

     With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]

   • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
3. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 1,^[4]

     But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?

   • 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, London: Jacob Tonson, XII, p. 17,^[5]

     Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign,

     What wonder if the kindly beams he shed

     Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]

   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, “The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions” in Miscellanies, London: John Morphew, p. 284,^[6]

     I saw him accidentally once or twice about 10 Days before he died, and observed he began very much to Droop and Languish […]

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act I, Scene 2, p. 5,^[7]

     I’ll animate the Soldier’s drooping Courage,

     With Love of Freedom, and Contempt of Life.

4. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act II, Scene 5,^[8]

     […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine

     That droops his sapless branches to the ground;

   • 1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62,^[9]

     Down in the mire he droops his head;

     Forgotten, not forgiven.

5. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11, lines 175-178,^[10]

     […] let us forth,

     I never from thy side henceforth to stray,

     Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind

     Laborious, till day droop […]

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “The Princess” in The Princess; a Medley, London: Edward Moxon, p. 46,^[11]

     […] and now when day

     Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those

     Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]

Derived terms

• droopage

Translations

Noun

droop (plural droops)

1. Something which is limp or sagging.
2. A condition or posture of drooping.

3. (aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.

Coordinate terms

(part of aeroplane wing):

• slat

Translations

Derived terms

• brewer's droop
• droop nose
• droop snoot

Related terms

• drooped
• drooping
• droopy

References

• droop at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Podor

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?p

Verb

droop

1. singular past indicative of druipen

English

Etymology

From Middle English decresen, discresen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descreistre (French: décroître), from Latin decrescere.

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: d?kr?s', IPA^(key): /d??k?i?s/
• (noun) enPR: d?'kr?s, IPA^(key): /?di?k?i?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

Verb

decrease (third-person singular simple present decreases, present participle decreasing, simple past and past participle decreased)

1. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.

2. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.

Synonyms

• (become smaller): drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink; See also Thesaurus:decrease
• (make smaller): abate, cut, decrement, lower, reduce; See also Thesaurus:diminish

Antonyms

• (become larger): go up, grow, increase, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly); See also Thesaurus:increase
• (make larger): increase, increment, raise, up (informal); See also Thesaurus:augment

Related terms

• decretion
• increase

Translations

Noun

decrease (countable and uncountable, plural decreases)

1. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.

2. (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 Decrease (knitting).

Synonyms

• (amount by which a quantity is decreased): cut, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage

Antonyms

• (amount by which a quantity is decreased): gain, increase, increment, raise (US, of pay), rise

Translations

Anagrams

• deceaser