disminuir
decline ; decrease ; diminish ; dwindle ; fall off ; reduce ; relax ; shrink ; slow down ; tail off ; lower ; dip ; subside ; mitigate ; lessen ; abate ; decelerate ; regress ; wane ; take + a dive ; ebb ; slacken ; whittle (away/down/at) ; slow up ; taper ; scale back ; remit ; take + a dip ; turn down ; let up ; extenuate ; bring down ; get + small(er) ; make + small(er).
Library use declines during the June-October period when examinations have finished and the students are on vacation.
Recall is inversely proportional to precision, and vice versa, or in other words, as one increases, the other must decrease.
While another colleague of mine offered the wry comment that 'as the computer's capabilities have increased our expectations of what it can do have proportionally diminished'.
Whereas this proportion is dwindling as a percentage of the total budget, agricultural spending continues to rise in real terms.
When the recording procedures were removed study time fell off immediately.
The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
Since the Federal Government has not been willing to relax import restrictions on books, academic librarians have had to devise a number of strategies for the survival of collection development.
The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
In this unsettled atmosphere, it is not surprising that enthusiasm for membership of the Community should tail off.
When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
The proportions of books bought for children have been extraordinarily steady for four of the five years, only dipping at all appreciably in the last year of 1979-80.
Her agitation subsided suddenly.
Confusion caused by repetition of descriptive information in access points can be mitigated by careful screen design.
Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
As the sobbing abated, the secretary's voice regained some steadiness.
Accumulation of new data bases is decelerating rapidly with the focus on deriving subsets from current files to serve niche markets.
Interloans have regressed recently, despite the rapid advancement of the computer age.
The population waxed again slightly, then waned again, until it finally stabilized around its present 55,000.
The article 'Wages, hours, bookfunds take a dive' examines how some authorities are proposing cuts in wages to preserve services; others reducing bookfunds by as much as a quarter, or cutting their opening hours in half.
Subsequently, library development stalled as cultural interaction ebbed from classical levels.
The trend direct supply of books to schools shows no sign of slackening.
However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
The fever was resolved and the skin lesions started to remit during the following 3 weeks.
Sales took a dip in 2005 but exploded in 2006.
Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
We can't let up on that just because these are tough times and he's had a very successful campaign.
The Depression extenuated the fact that impoverished Americans were helpless in a capitalistic system that denied them any voice.
Is it true that rubbing alcohol helps bring down a child's fever?.
A new study has found that human brains get smaller with age.
She said that she loves her breasts and that it is not true that she wants to make them smaller to look better in her wedding dress.
atención + disminuir
attention + wane
The gaming generation wants to be entertained - it wants action, colours or attention wanes.
disminuir casi hasta su desaparación
drop to + near vanishing point
Among the many disadvantaged members of society this proportion often drops to near vanishing point.
disminuir costes
reduce + costs
bring down + costs
The use of new printing technologies has helped to reduce costs.
The UK government is providing £6m to help bring down the costs of solar power.
disminuir de tamaño
dwindle in + size
This has been the case with newspapers which suddenly find that their audiences are both growing older and dwindling in size and they are facing great difficulty appealing to the new electronic generation.
disminuir el riesgo
reduce + Posesivo + risk
cut + Posesivo + risk
Perhaps the 2 most important factors in capitalising on opportunities and reducing risks in the acquisition of information companies is the application of a careful screening procedure = Quizás los dos factores más importantes para aprovechar oportunidades y reducir riesgos en la adquisición de empresas dedicadas a la información es la aplicación de un procedimiento cuidadoso de selección.
Women who have been on the pill for 10 or more years cut their risk of ovarian cancer by about 45%.
disminuir el valor de
belittle
Citing a renowned author merely to gain personal respectability for an otherwise mediocre piece of research belittles the work of the cited author.
disminuir gastos
reduce + costs
bring down + costs
The use of new printing technologies has helped to reduce costs.
The UK government is providing £6m to help bring down the costs of solar power.
disminuir la contaminación
lower + pollution
Driverless cars could help ease traffic congestion, lower pollution and prevent accidents.
disminuir la importancia de
lessen + the importance of
In addition, the improved access through technology has lessened the importance of the local collection.
disminuir la marcha
slow down
However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
disminuir la polución
lower + pollution
Driverless cars could help ease traffic congestion, lower pollution and prevent accidents.
disminuir la posibilidad
lessen + possibility
This saves clients' time in running around and lessens the possibility of them 'dropping out'.
disminuir la probabilidad
reduce + chances
This article suggests the steps that libraries might take during periods of instability to reduce their chances of being injured by a vendor that fails.
disminuir las probabilidades
lengthen + the odds
A new year is coming, students who fail to plan will lengthen the odds of achieving their potential.
disminuir la velocidad
slow up
Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
sin disminuir
non-decreasing
unabated
The notion of functional dependency requires an additional structure in the form of a monotone nondecreasing function.
The demand for English as the world's lingua franca continues unabated.
