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Decorate vs Modify - What's the difference?

decorate | modify |

In transitive terms the difference between decorate and modify

is that decorate is to improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth while modify is to make partial changes to.

decorate

English

Verb

(decorat)
  • To furnish with decorations.
  • To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
  • (computing) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
  • It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * decorative

    Anagrams

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    modify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make partial changes to.
  • To be or become modified.
  • Synonyms

    * adapt, alter, amend, revamp, rework

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