Diminuendo :: Diminuendo (adv.) In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign..

Diminuent :: Diminuent (a.) Lessening.

Diminutal :: Diminutal (a.) Indicating or causing diminution.

Diminute :: Diminute (a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.

Diminutely :: Diminutely (adv.) Diminutively.

Diminution :: Diminution (n.) The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase..

Diminution :: Diminution (n.) The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement..

Diminution :: Diminution (n.) Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record..

Diminution :: Diminution (n.) In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself..

Diminutival :: Diminutival (a.) Indicating diminution; diminutive.

Diminutival :: Diminutival (n.) A diminutive.

Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Below the average size; very small; little.

Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word..

Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.

Diminutive :: Diminutive (n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.

Diminutive :: Diminutive (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin..

Diminutively :: Diminutively (adv.) In a diminutive manner.

Diminutiveness :: Diminutiveness (n.) The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

Dinumeration :: Dinumeration (n.) Enumeration.

Discontinuable :: Discontinuable (a.) Admitting of being discontinued.

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..

Discontinuation :: Discontinuation (n.) Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. t.) To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off..

Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.

Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. i.) To be separated or severed; to part.

Discontinued :: Discontinued (imp. & p. p.) of Discontinu.

Discontinuee :: Discontinuee (n.) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance..

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