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Hike vs Enhance - What's the difference?

hike | enhance |

As verbs the difference between hike and enhance

is that hike is to take a long walk for pleasure or exercise while enhance is to lift, raise up.

As a noun hike

is a long walk.

hike

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long walk.
  • An abrupt increase.
    • The tenants were not happy with the rent hike .
  • (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
  • A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher

    • Verb

    (hik)
  • To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
    • Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
  • To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
  • (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
  • (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
  • To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
    • She hiked her skirt up.

    Synonyms

    * (to lean to the windward side) lean out, sit out

    Derived terms

    * hiker * hiking

    See also

    * hitchhike * hitchhiker * take a hike ----

    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