Augment vs Enlarge - What's the difference?
augment | enlarge |
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.
To make larger.
To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 11
To speak at length upon'' or ''on (some subject)
* 1664 , (Samuel Butler), Hudibras 2.2.68:
(archaic) To release; to set at large.
* 1580 , (Philip Sidney), Arcadia 329:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
* Barrow
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II Scene II:
(nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
(legal) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
As verbs the difference between augment and enlarge
is that augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement while enlarge is to make larger.As a noun augment
is (grammar) in some indo-european languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.augment
English
Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
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English
Verb
(enlarg)- Knowledge enlarges the mind.
- O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged .
- I shall enlarge upon the Point.
- Like a Lionesse lately enlarged .
- Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge , / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.
- It will enlarge us from all restraints.
- Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.
- (Abbott)
