Increase vs Swelling - What's the difference?
increase | swelling | Related terms |
(of a quantity) To become larger.
* Bible, Genesis vii. 17
* Shakespeare
To make (a quantity) larger.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
* Sir M. Hale
(astronomy) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
An amount by which a quantity is increased.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
(knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see .
The state of being swollen.
* {{quote-book
, year= a1420
, year_published= 1894
, author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
, by= (Lanfranc of Milan)
, title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63
, original=
, chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone
, section=
, isbn= 1163911380
, edition=
, publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co
, location= London
, editor= Robert von Fleischhacker
, volume=
, page= 63
, passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge ; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
}}
Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
Increase is a related term of swelling.
As verbs the difference between increase and swelling
is that increase is (of a quantity) to become larger while swelling is .As nouns the difference between increase and swelling
is that increase is an amount by which a quantity is increased while swelling is the state of being swollen.increase
English
Alternative forms
* encreaseVerb
(increas)- The waters increased and bare up the ark.
- The heavens forbid / But that our loves and comforts should increase , / Even as our days do grow!
Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
- Fishes are more numerous of increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn.
- The Moon increases .
Synonyms
* (become larger) go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly) * (make larger) increment, raise, (informal) upAntonyms
* (become larger) decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink * (make larger) cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduceDerived terms
* increasableNoun
(en noun)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}