Augment vs Transmute - What's the difference?
augment | transmute |
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 change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.
In transitive terms the difference between augment and transmute
is that augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement while transmute is to change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.As a noun augment
is 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
(transmut)- The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.
- Did the base metals transmute to gold?