Perk vs Increment - What's the difference?
perk | increment |
To become more lively or enthusiastic.
To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
* Barrow
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
* Woodward
* Coleridge
(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
The amount of increase.
(rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, think on these things."
As nouns the difference between perk and increment
is that perk is perquisite or perk can be a percolator, particularly of coffee while increment is increment.As a verb perk
is shortened form of percolate or perk can be to become more lively or enthusiastic or perk can be (dated) to peer; to look inquisitively.As an adjective perk
is smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.perk
English
Etymology 1
From perquisite, by abbreviation.Alternative forms
* (l) (less common)Etymology 2
From percolate (verb) and percolator (noun), by abbreviation.Etymology 3
The origin is .Verb
(en verb)- to perk over them
- to perk''' the ears; to '''perk up one's head
- (Cowper)
- (Sherburne)
Derived terms
* perk up * perkyEtymology 4
The origin is .increment
English
Noun
(en noun)- the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
- A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.