decline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English declinen, and ultimately Latin declīnō (“to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”, from dē- (“down”) + clīnō (“to bend, to incline”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean). The senses arrived from two separate pathways in Middle English:
* The grammatical sense came from Old English declīnian, which was borrowed directly from the Latin etymon.
* All senses except the grammatical sense were derived from those of Old French decliner. Old French itself borrowed the verb from Latin.
Base: clīnō
Affixes: dē-
Inflected forms:
form: declines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: declines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: declining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: declined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: declined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: decline
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: decline
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: declined
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: decline
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: declinest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: declined
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: declinedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: declines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: declineth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: declined
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: decline
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: declined
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: decline
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: declined
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: decline
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: declining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: declined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Downward movement, fall.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The aircraft went into a sudden decline before the pilot regained control.
gloss: A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After taking a right from that turn a decline will come into view.
gloss: A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has experienced a sudden decline in his health.
Educational standards are on the decline.
The country's global reputation is in decline.
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
gloss: A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Population decline is a major concern.
Town-centre retailers have seen a decline in footfall.
It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
"It knows it has to plan for managed decline, but it can't even plan for managed decline if it doesn't know how much decline to manage."
gloss: The act of declining or refusing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The issuing bank only checks the consumer's credit card number for authorization. […] Soft declines are those declines in which the bank requires further verification.
gloss: To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
gloss: To become weaker or worse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My health declined in winter.
After her sother died, Connie began to decline noticeably.
Will this decision-making paralysis continue until Great British Railways has been established and settled into a new rhythm? If so, passengers on the West of England line are in for a rough ride, as the reliability of these tired old British Rail trains inevitably declines, and maintenance costs rise.
gloss: To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: in melancholy site, with head declined
And now faire Phoebus gan decline in hast / His weary wagon to the Westerne vale.
gloss: To cause to decrease or diminish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You have declin'd his means.
He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
gloss: To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
pos: verb
examples: a line that declines from straightness
conduct that declines from sound morals
Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
gloss: To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Could I decline this dreadful hour?
“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.
gloss: To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
gloss: To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: after the first declining of a noun and a verb
gloss: To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: Decline all this, and see what now thou art. For happy wife, a most distressed widow;
For joyful mother, one that wails the name;
For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;
For queen , a very caitiff crown'd with care[…]
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: Canadian
examples: The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.
Antonyms: incline
Related words: climate
cline
declivity
incline
recline
Derived words: acute oak decline
declinal
declinarian
decline porn
declinism
declinist
declinometer
oak decline
olive quick decline syndrome
declension
declinability
declinable
declination
decliningly
redecline
Texas phoenix palm decline
undeclined
undeclining
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