Augment vs Injunctive - What's the difference?
augment | injunctive |
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.
(linguistics, uncountable) A verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect.
(linguistics, countable) A verbal lexeme in injunctive mood.
Pertaining to the injunctive mood.
Pertaining to or being an injunction.
As nouns the difference between augment and injunctive
is that augment is in some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb while injunctive is a verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect.As a verb augment
is to increase; to make larger or supplement.As an adjective injunctive is
pertaining to the injunctive mood.augment
English
Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
