Accumulate vs Decrease - What's the difference?
accumulate | decrease |
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
To make (a quantity) smaller.
An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
(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 .
In transitive terms the difference between accumulate and decrease
is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while decrease is to make (a quantity) smaller.In intransitive terms the difference between accumulate and decrease
is that accumulate is to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly while decrease is of a quantity, to become smaller.As an adjective accumulate
is collected; accumulated.As a noun decrease is
an amount by which a quantity is decreased.accumulate
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Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
