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Decorate vs Prettify - What's the difference?

decorate | prettify |

As verbs the difference between decorate and prettify

is that decorate is to furnish with decorations while prettify is to make pretty or prettier, to make more attractive, especially only in a superficial way.

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

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * decorative

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    prettify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make pretty or prettier, to make more attractive, especially only in a superficial way.
  • *2011 , ‘Land of the wasted talent’, The Economist , 5 Nov 2011:
  • *:Old-fashioned bosses see their role as prettifying the office and forming a pool of potential marriage partners for male employees.