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Enhance vs Cement - What's the difference?

enhance | cement |

In lang=en terms the difference between enhance and cement

is that enhance is to be raised up; to grow larger while cement is to overlay or coat with cement.

As verbs the difference between enhance and cement

is that enhance is (obsolete) to lift, raise up while cement is to affix with cement.

As a noun cement is

(label) a powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.

enhance

English

Alternative forms

* inhance * enhaunce * inhaunce

Verb

(enhanc)
  • (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
    • nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst : / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
    (Wyclif Bible)
  • To augment or make something greater.
  • * Southey
    • The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.
  • * 2000 , Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope , page 155
    • A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution
  • To improve something by adding features.
  • * 1986 , Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English , page 192
    • A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.
  • To be raised up; to grow larger.
    • A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    cement

    English

    (wikipedia cement)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

  • (label) A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
  • (label) Any material with strong adhesive properties.
  • (label) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
  • (label) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

    • Derived terms

    * Keene's cement * masonry cement * Portland cement

    See also

    * concrete

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affix with cement.
  • To overlay or coat with cement.
    • to cement a cellar bottom
  • (figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (figuratively) To make permanent.
  • * "But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit;" David Hume, http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=704&chapter=137514&layout=html&Itemid=27