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Enhance vs Raising - What's the difference?

enhance | raising |

As verbs the difference between enhance and raising

is that enhance is to lift, raise up while raising is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun raising is

elevation.

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

    raising

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Elevation.
  • Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
  • Recruitment.
  • Collection or gathering, especially of money.
  • (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
  • to help at a raising
  • The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
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