Alter vs Modifier - What's the difference?
alter | modifier |
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
One who, or that which, modifies.
(grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.
As an adjective alter
is .As a noun modifier is
one who, or that which, modifies.alter
English
Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)
