construction vs decrease

construction

noun
  • The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker. 

  • The process of constructing. 

  • The trade of building structures. 

  • Anything that has been constructed. 

  • A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass. 

  • A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase. 

  • A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc. 

  • A building, model or some other structure. 

  • The manner in which something is built. 

  • The act or result of construing the meaning of something. 

decrease

verb
  • Of a quantity, to become smaller. 

  • To make (a quantity) smaller. 

noun
  • 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 Decrease (knitting). 

  • An amount by which a quantity is decreased. 

How often have the words construction and decrease occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )