decline

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Downward movement, fall.

   “The aircraft went into a sudden decline before the pilot regained control.”

2. isim A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.

   “After taking a right from that turn a decline will come into view.”

3. isim A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.

   “He has experienced a sudden decline in his health.”

4. isim A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.

   “Population decline is a major concern.”

5. isim The act of declining or refusing something.

   “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.”

6. fiil To move downwards, to fall, to drop.

   “The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.”

7. fiil To become weaker or worse.

   “My health declined in winter.”

8. fiil To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

   “in melancholy site, with head declined”

9. fiil To cause to decrease or diminish.

   “You have declin'd his means.”

10. fiil To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.

    “a line that declines from straightness”

11. fiil To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.

    “On reflection I think I will decline your generous offer.”

12. fiil To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
13. fiil To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.

    “after the first declining of a noun and a verb”

14. fiil To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.

    “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[…]”

15. fiil 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.

    “The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.”