Append vs Augment - What's the difference?
append | augment |
To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
(computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file.
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(grammar) To add an augment to.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
In transitive terms the difference between append and augment
is that append is to add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter while augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement.append
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(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.