Promote vs Increase - What's the difference?
promote | increase |
To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
To encourage, urge or incite
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To elevate to the above league.
(label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure
(label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank
(of a quantity) To become larger.
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* Shakespeare
To make (a quantity) larger.
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(astronomy) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
An amount by which a quantity is increased.
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(knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see .
As verbs the difference between promote and increase
is that promote is to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank while increase is (of a quantity) to become larger.As a noun increase is
an amount by which a quantity is increased.promote
English
Verb
(promot)- He promoted his clerk to office manager.
- Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
- They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
- At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
Antonyms
* (raise rank) demote * (advocate or urge on behalf of) denigrate, opposeAnagrams
* * English transitive verbs ----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!
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- 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
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